cherry-pick
verb
cher·ry-pick
ˈcher-ē-ˌpik 
cherry-picked; cherry-picking; cherry-picks
: to select the best or most desirable
: to select as being the best or most desirable
also
: to select the best or most desirable from
cherry-picked the art collection
Examples of cherry-pick in a Sentence
cherry-picked the spacious corner office for his corporate fief
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Cursor’s approach is to cherry-pick the best models available, supplement them with proprietary ones where necessary, and wrap it all into what Truell says is the best user interface for AI coding.
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Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2025
Mainstream climate scientists heavily criticized the report for cherry-picking evidence and misinterpreting key climate science findings.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025
Some of the founders were indeed devout Christians and these folks cherry-pick Christian quotations from them.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
Following Democrats’ release, Republicans accused Democrats of cherry-picking the emails, later releasing a tranche of 20,000 pages of documents both sides received from the Epstein estate last week.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 13 Nov. 2025
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Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2025
Mainstream climate scientists heavily criticized the report for cherry-picking evidence and misinterpreting key climate science findings.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025
Some of the founders were indeed devout Christians and these folks cherry-pick Christian quotations from them.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
Following Democrats’ release, Republicans accused Democrats of cherry-picking the emails, later releasing a tranche of 20,000 pages of documents both sides received from the Epstein estate last week.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 13 Nov. 2025
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“Cherry-pick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cherry-pick. Accessed 16 Dec. 2025.
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