a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Recent Examples on the WebHalf of the participants — a mix of tea pickers, weavers and seamstresses between 35 and 65 — were randomly chosen to receive a free pair of reading glasses.—Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024 During her time as a volunteer grape picker at Sonoita Vineyards, Stranik fell in love with the farming and production sides of the industry.—Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024 And earlier this year, OSHA again proposed fines against a Central Florida farm after one of its strawberry pickers died of heat exhaustion after temperatures rose to 89 degrees.—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024 Since October 7th, messages in settler chat groups had portrayed olive pickers as undercover Hamas operatives and as Nazis.—Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024 Deere is integrating autonomy into earthmovers, road milling machines, cotton pickers, tractors, and more.—Richard Bishop, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024 The picking robot from ETH spin-off Floating Robotics takes on particularly repetitive tasks, thereby alleviating the strain on human pickers.—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2023 Andrew Cunningham Right-click an empty spot on the desktop to bring up the widget picker.—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023 The notion of a bluegrass picker ascending to performing multiple nights at arenas places this guitar master on a level of some bold-name country and rock acts who regularly pull such double-headers.—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2024
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