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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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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
Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 3 May 2026
Alibaba is the Morgan Stanley analysts’ top pick among China internet stocks, based on the view that the e-commerce giant is also a play on AI across the tech stack from cloud computing to AI models.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 3 May 2026
Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2026
So which one should the Hawks pick if their number comes up?
—Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
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Noun
The throwback to Microsoft’s early 2000s Office assistant is one of the community’s most popular picks.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 3 May 2026
Alibaba is the Morgan Stanley analysts’ top pick among China internet stocks, based on the view that the e-commerce giant is also a play on AI across the tech stack from cloud computing to AI models.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 3 May 2026
Verb
The San Diego Seals picked the perfect time to turn in their best performance of the season.
—Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2026
So which one should the Hawks pick if their number comes up?
—Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pick
Noun
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Her activities of choice are perusing Pinterest and surfing YouTube Shorts—essentially a high-latency TikTok.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Escobarete is glad Campbell made the choice to become a Crusader.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Test your knowledge of baseball bests, restaurant revamps and more in this week's American Culture Quiz.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
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Then the speakers’ exhortations to excellence would build in emotional intensity until women began to weep and the meeting erupted in spontaneous pledges to set new personal bests.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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The California Honey mandarin (Citrus reticulata 'California Honey') is an exceptional patio plant and a sweeter citrus option.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
3 May 2026
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Duffy also advised passengers to consider credit card chargebacks, travel insurance claims or bankruptcy filings for additional recovery options.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN Money,
3 May 2026
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Shortly after the five-year anniversary of the killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by a Chicago police officer, the case was poised to move to a high-profile weekslong trial when a Cook County judge dealt a blow to the Toledo family’s case.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
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Helping cushion the blow of the supply shock, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have used alternative export routes that bypass the Strait of Hormuz.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
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The Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians, which comprises more than two dozen groups indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, had not had an opportunity to harvest meat, blubber, or bones in at least a generation.—
Robin Romm,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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Radishes are some of the fastest growing veggies around and early maturing varieties can be harvested just 3 weeks after planting!—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 May 2026
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Let curiosity lead, and choose the next step that keeps things moving forward without overthinking it.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
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Williams bought his on the TikTok shop, and chose it because it was advertised as spraying quickly.—
Rebecca Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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The Declaration’s insurrectionist contention—that people, when unjustly provoked, have the right to dissolve their government—hung heavily in a country that had just witnessed the eleven states of the Confederacy make the same argument.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sanchéz, are honorary chairs and lead sponsors of the gala — which has provoked an activist group to call for a boycott of the event.—
Ivy Buck,
NPR,
4 May 2026
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And then there’s some outings where there’s too much nibbling with the cutter, with the sweeper, as opposed to staying on the attack.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
27 Apr. 2026
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While rabbits may nibble on the leaves of potatoes when food is scarce, this isn’t their preferred food source, and it typically goes ignored.—
Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Pick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pick. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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