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picker

[pik-er] / ˈpɪk ər /
NOUN
reaper
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"The worst one was when a van with a cherry picker got stuck under it, it took four to five hours to get it out," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

“It’s really masking what is a quite obvious correction. If you’re a stock picker, or you own anything besides a few select tech names, it can be a big problem.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Ashmore, who has completed numerous murals for businesses, said he had always intended to hire a cherry picker to finish the job, but would not be pressured into "rushing" it.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

AI cannot make you a better stock picker.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

The rain was falling so hard that he could barely see the cherry picker in the middle of the span.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Joe Middleton, site manager for the Woodland Trust, said he had seen commercial mushroom pickers "wiping out everything on the path edges they can find".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

In the years since ChatGPT launched, AI companies have consumed every source of capital they could find, tapping venture capitalists, stock pickers, bankers and managers of bond and private-credit funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Even skilled stock pickers are finding that time is working against them, Parker found.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

But there are optimists too, such as a man who told us his last name was Zhang, standing alongside potato pickers in a field near the data centres.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Brought back to the Store, the pickers would step out of the backs of trucks and fold down, dirt-disappointed, to the ground.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou


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