How to Use cherry-pick in a Sentence
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Those who want to cherry-pick the deals before the crowds can enter early at 8 a.m. on Friday for $10.
—Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2025
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Even the politicians who attended the rallies cherry-picked which parts to respond to.
—Em Readman, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
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Her job: monitoring Western broadcasts to cherry-pick news that showed the West in a bad light to air on the network’s shows.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
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Our favorite way to play that growth isn’t by trying to cherry-pick which retailer will win at the online game.
—Brett Owens, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Players from both teams cherry-picked at the offensive end of the court instead of getting back on defense.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
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Players from both teams cherry-picked at the offensive end of the court instead of getting back on defense.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
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Mid-major colleges will never keep their teams together and the big schools will cherry-pick the best players.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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There, shoppers could cherry-pick from different eras to curate their looks.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
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There are also specific savings on planned sailings, so peruse their site to cherry-pick the best deal and remember to read all the fine print.
—Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024
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Many Ivy League students have learned to cherry-pick easy-grading professors.
—Karin Klein, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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What to watch: The trend could widen health disparities as doctors flee to cash-pay businesses and cherry-pick patients.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
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Threads is a brand extension versus a totally new product, and the early joiners (like me) were easy to cherry-pick at launch.
—Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
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Programming isn’t only about cherry-picking the best film.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2024
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Boston even cherry-picked some strategy from the Warriors.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
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As the genre turns 50, its most rewarding songs wisely cherry-pick from the past while staying true to rap’s reputation as a harbinger of what’s next.
—Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
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Democrats warn that Trump supporters would cherry-pick clips of the video to spin conspiracy theories.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
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Fox said Dominion had mischaracterized the record and cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.
—David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
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The speed at which the Saudi league has been able to cherry-pick such familiar, if fading, names from Europe’s elite clubs has made the country’s ambition feel like an inevitability.
—Ahmed Al Omran, New York Times, 13 July 2023
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In response, Baldoni’s counsel has alleged that the text messages illustrative of the smear campaign in the Times article were cherry-picked and taken out of context.
—Nicole Page, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
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His peers criticized him for cherry-picking data, and his comments drew backlash from healthcare providers who were overwhelmed by the strain on U.S. hospitals.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
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The San Sebastian film festival has cherry-picked the best of Cannes’ competition lineup for its Perlak section this year.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
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Taxpayers deserve an independent and complete review — not cherry-picking topics and then putting a thumb on the scale.
—Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
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Enck accused the plastics industry of cherry-picking research, too.
—Emily Le Coz, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
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Prosecutors, however, said Trump’s defense had cherry-picked two of Chutkan’s statements out of context and misapplied the law to wrongly argue that the judge was biased against him.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
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Well, and speaking of which, some of your Republican colleagues have cherry-picked some of the images to frankly further some conspiracy theories.
—Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
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In its second year under Hitchcock’s leadership, the festival seems to be settling into a role of cherry-picking highlights from the year and bringing them to audiences in L.A.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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But potential 2027 election rivals like Ruffin are also cherry-picking elements of her rhetoric to make their own case to voters.
—Ania Nussbaum, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
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Presidents sometimes bolster their claims of a mandate by cherry-picking polling results.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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Presidents sometimes bolster their claims of a mandate by cherry-picking polling results.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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The Biden administration pushed back on the findings by Republicans, calling it a partisan effort that sought to cherry-pick facts ahead of an election.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2024
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