picking
Example Sentences
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Mayor Karen Bass chose McDonnell as chief after a lengthy nationwide search, picking him over candidates who would have been the first Black woman or first Latino to lead the department.
From Los Angeles Times
Martin O'Neill would have spelled that out to him had Nancy spent more than 15 minutes picking the brains of a guy who knows Celtic's past and Celtic's present better than anybody.
From BBC
Companies such as e-commerce giant Amazon have used the robot for repetitive tasks such as picking up and moving empty totes.
From Los Angeles Times
Outbound shipments from Japan increased 6.1% compared with the same period a year earlier, government data showed Wednesday, picking up sharply from October’s 3.6% rise.
The picking of numbers off the pyramid in order to complete the last stage of the preliminary prize-winning round is a little like “Concentration.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
