selective
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Serious collectors will be selective about what they buy, but should still be willing to pay up for top-notch works.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
"The move now is toward being more strategic and selective in terms of placement."
From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026
After years of debate between fire officials seeking total vegetation removal within the first 5 feet of homes and ecologists backing selective landscaping, California proposed a compromise.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
His work suggests that the key may lie in being extremely precise and selective in how experiments are designed to search for signs of dark energy and dark matter closer to home.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
I had no idea, though, how to make attraction selective, how to control its direction and magnitude.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Vocabulary lists containing selective
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