picking on
Example Sentences
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How could the clueless become clued if their peers weren’t picking on their every lame move?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The ETF market can also be mean, picking on specific people.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2025
As she recalled picking on her co-star John David Washington in the ways that a sibling would, she couldn’t help but laugh.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
Without picking on Duckett, who has been successful and is a personable character, he can be used as an example.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2024
She’d made such a scene, bursting into the café to whine to Mamá that the girls were picking on her again.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
