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pick
noun as in a chosen option, usually the choicest
verb as in choose, select
verb as in gather, harvest
Example Sentences
On a recent Friday afternoon in London, Jarvis Cocker, 62, is musing over the suit he’s just picked up from the Portobello Road Market: “I’m quite pleased with it,” he says.
That’s what the president is trying to avoid this time around — particularly with his picks headed in the west, experts said.
Sometimes, delivery bikes are parked around the side of the buildings and occasionally vans pick people up.
According to Mark Bray, a professor of history at Rutgers University, the term was picked up across Europe in the 1980s and ’90s and adopted by a broad swath of leftists, anarchists and anti-authoritarian socialists.
"Some of these firms have skilled plumbers and electricians going out and spending those days litter picking."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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