picking
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However, he has avoided picking a side in the messy merger squabble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
It wasn’t previously known that Situational Awareness, known for its acumen in picking AI stocks, had a stake of any size in the company.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Humans are really good at picking up small details on the face, and so are dogs," says first author Raúl Hernández-Pérez from the University of Vienna.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Palmer and Colwill were given the freedom to go shopping after picking up knocks against Spurs, but videos of their outing showed just how well-known they were.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The color was draining from it, picking up the gray of the backpack he was gripping.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
We are small fry by most standards, but I can imagine state lawmakers looking at us as easy pickings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
But for 2½ hours she got the error message and could not access the pool of tickets until 12:30 p.m., by which time, she said, “the pickings were slim.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
He explained that, if seals have smaller areas of sea ice available to them, they will congregate in those smaller areas, presenting easier collective pickings for bears.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
Squirrels should be smart enough to take the easy pickings over the puzzle box.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
More attention to her looks than these pullings of hairs and pickings at spots would have caused gossip among the villagers.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
