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as in choice
a person or thing that is chosen
that team is my pick to win the Super Bowl
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as in best
individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class
the pick of the contestants will go on to the next competition
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as in option
the power, right, or opportunity to choose
you have first pick of your office mates for the softball team
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as in blow
a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument
in the days when corporal punishment was permissible, it was not uncommon for an inattentive student to get a sharp pick in the head with a blackboard pointer
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as in to harvest
to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use
pick peas and beans from the garden for dinner
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2
as in to choose
to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities
I pick you as my partner
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as in to provoke
to bring (something volatile or intense) into being
he seems to be trying to pick a fight
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as in to stab
to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object
continued to pick the block of ice until she was able to extract the shrimp
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Recent Examples of pick
Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025
Tyler Scott, a fourth-round pick in 2023, caught only one pass last season and will be challenged to hang onto his spot in training camp.
—Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2025
Rookie watch After only playing three minutes against the Clippers, No. 18 pick Tristan da Silva did not see the floor against the Spurs, recording just his fifth DNP-CD.
—Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Castle was only the program’s second-ever one-and-done lottery pick, joining Andre Drummond.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025
Tyler Scott, a fourth-round pick in 2023, caught only one pass last season and will be challenged to hang onto his spot in training camp.
—Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
With assertions that the other side has essentially cherry picked the texts, Baldoni and his team have repeatedly denied any such smear campaign was ever unleashed.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2025
Rookie watch After only playing three minutes against the Clippers, No. 18 pick Tristan da Silva did not see the floor against the Spurs, recording just his fifth DNP-CD.
—Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pick
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The casting choices might raise a whole host of interesting questions about how this Venice reflects our own time, but Leon doesn’t foreground, or even really acknowledge, them.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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With this versatility in mind, color choices range from neutral black to navy, beige, or off-white.—
Jessica Macdonald,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Mar. 2025
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This is meant to be the time to develop the conditioning needed to break records or run personal bests later in the year.—
Liam Tharme,
The Athletic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Historically, Rose, Whittaker and Willis all own career bests inside the NCAA top five performances of all-time.—
Cory Mull,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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From matte black to iridescent tortoiseshell, the options felt endless.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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There’s also the option to expand the size up to 304-square-feet for those looking for even more space.—
Rylee Johnston,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Mar. 2025
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That’s a major blow to both sales and long-term customer loyalty.—
Samuel Mueller,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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His ruling, stopping the TPS revocation while the lawsuit plays out in his court, was a blow to the Trump administration.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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Now the physicist and tech entrepreneur is focused on chocolate — not from cacao harvested in tropical climates more suited to the plant, but from cacao grown right here in Southern California.—
Laurie Ochoa,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Mar. 2025
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Sheep, pigs, and cattle grazed under the trees and harvested their own fodder—a practice known as silvopasture, derived from Latin and meaning forest feeding.—
Ben Seal,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Mar. 2025
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Change begins when both name those patterns and choose new ones, together.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Meteorologists there had to choose between gathering information that will help in the future and warning about immediate danger.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at the White House that the administration maintained confidence in Waltz and said the case was effectively closed, even as the breach provoked bipartisan criticism and opened up divisions inside the White House.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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As an abstraction and comparison machine, Pronouns provokes anxiety, getting at the dangers of correlation.—
Mara Mills,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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But the amount of the sun that will be covered in this region will be quite small, amounting to only a bite or nibble or barely a nick in the sun's disk.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The newlyweds dined on filet mignon, nibbled on wedding cake and drank champagne toasts.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Pick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pick. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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