a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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Television helicopters showed the crash involved a Lincoln Town Car and a utility cherry-picker truck.—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026 Cutting a dash through the gaggle of bargain hunters, professional pickers, and the just-plain-curious, Carlotta Champagne and Haley Warr make a beeline for the sign-in sheet and slap our names down.—Zoey Goto, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2026 The fruit is harvested using pickers, basket-like cages with clawed tips to catch the fruit, on extendable poles.—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026 That creates healthy breadth readings and pleases professional stock pickers, though in the past has not been associated with strong index advances.—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for picker