picker
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Daniel Barbou, an 84-year-old grape picker, joined a small army of laborers in the scramble to harvest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Ruth Major, from Redruth, Cornwall visited all 39 BBC radio stations in England across 55 days armed with a litter picker and a bus pass.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Harry Machin, a volunteer litter picker in Peterborough, said other councils could learn from Cambridge.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Does it still pay to be a good stock picker?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
By the end of the day, everyone in Green Lake had heard that the schoolteacher had kissed the onion picker.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
Among them: why indexing beats even the most talented stock pickers; the biggest mistake individual investors are making right now, and what a young investor can learn from a lifetime spent studying markets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
In each market mania, new celebrity stock pickers get anointed, from Ryan Jacob and his Internet Fund during the dot-com era to Cathie Wood and her ARK Innovation ETF during the pandemic rally of 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
As AI models got more powerful, he added more features and started targeting stock pickers, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
“Sad news,” orchard owner Gary Shafer said on an outgoing voicemail he left for would-be pickers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Between her and them were the other pickers from Señor Fidencio’s truck.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
