pick up on
Example Sentences
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“It’s tough to pick up on,” said rookie tight end CJ Dippre.
On camera, Melania barely talks to anyone besides her employees, a few of whom pick up on the Bravo Channel-style of the film and dutifully recite her opinions on her behalf, like when her event planner David Mann shows her the inauguration invitations and compliments them for being printed in “the color red … which you chose.”
From Los Angeles Times
Regular people now pick up on current events in a more random fashion.
From Salon
And kids watch that and they observe and they pick up on those signals.
From Los Angeles Times
Cohen: I want to pick up on Henry’s comments about companies’ differentiated success in implementing AI, and Rajiv’s citation of the MIT study indicating that many companies are just spending money without seeing value.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
