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picky

[pik-ee] / ˈpɪk i /


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"I've started to say no and not just take any job that's kind of coming my way. I'm being pickier," she says.

From BBC

She tends to select projects based on the script, but otherwise she isn’t picky.

From Los Angeles Times

The concept of being picky was born, though it was still so new a word that food marketers put it in quotation marks.

From The Wall Street Journal

If you’re feeding picky eaters, let everyone choose one thing they love.

From Salon

General Mills isn’t the only branded-foods company that has been hurt by pickier consumers.

From MarketWatch