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pick

noun as in a chosen option, usually the choicest

verb as in gather, harvest

Strongest matches

Strong matches

verb as in break into something closed, locked

Strongest matches

Weak match

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The bank has been picking up the legal bills for Javice and one of her co-executives following a judge’s order from 2023 that it is seeking to have overturned, citing allegedly questionable expenses.

“Kids pick up on all of that. They may not understand the details, but they absolutely understand that the adults are afraid and things aren’t safe,” Dreyden said.

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Readers who pick the more proper—or magnanimous—paths are in no way guaranteed to page their way toward happier endings.

Renewed layoff activity may simply reflect a normalization of the labor market, whereby hiring may pick up to offset job losses.

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It makes it easy for those who lost their homes to pick templates and receive competing bids from builders who have been vetted by Project Recovery.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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