pick

Example Sentences

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All eyes now will be on Pick, who first took the helm of the banking giant two years ago.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Her new book, Keep Your Hair On: Understanding Urges to Pick, Pull and Bite, is based on her personal experience and years of research into body-focused repetitive behaviours.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Pick up Sunday’s Times, and it’s as if the editors took that as a command rather than a criticism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Early in Michael McIndoe’s shift on Jan. 2, 2025, his crew got their marching orders: Pick up hoses left overnight at the scene of the Lachman fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

“Pick it up! If you don’t want it, someone will. Pick it up! Maybe Dave would want it. Dave? It’s perfectly good. We just got it at Wind Song.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson