picking
Example Sentences
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The two spend the years picking at each other while secretly growing fond of the other’s company, though never able to act on their feelings due to the difference in their social status.
From Salon
The six-month moving average of jobs growth is picking up, hinting that the worst of the hiring drought is behind us, he said in a note to clients.
From MarketWatch
Yet for people who bought homes in the past three years, paying much higher prices and steeper mortgage rates, delinquencies have been picking up, Taiano noted.
From MarketWatch
Wu said he focused on picking individual stocks that could beat the market and didn’t mind if the national team was buying or selling ETFs tracking broad indexes.
She told us she had not received any formal notification of Israel's plans, and was picking up the details from Israeli news.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
