selected

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The sportswriters who selected the members of the Baseball Hall of Fame unaccountably shunned him too; Klein got less than 3% of the vote in 1948, his first year of eligibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Last month, the Rams selected former Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson with the 13th pick in the draft.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

The Green Party of England and Wales said it was searching for a new candidate after the one it selected, Chris Kennedy, withdrew for personal and family reasons.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

The team selected 143 genes previously associated with resistance to the melanoma drug Vemurafenib and systematically disabled them in melanoma cells.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

I have selected these two stories to tell because they seem to me to present better than any other the Norse character and the Norse point of view.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton