Synonyms of cherry-picking

cherry-picking

verb

present participle of cherry-pick

as in selecting

to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities

cherry-picked the spacious corner office for his corporate fief

Synonyms & Similar Words

• selecting
• choosing
• picking
• taking
• naming
• electing
• preferring
• culling
• handpicking
• singling (out)
• designating
• tagging
• opting (for)
• nominating
• accepting
• adopting
• appointing
• tapping
• embracing
• preselecting
• marking
• setting
• fixing
• settling (on or upon)
• espousing
• tabbing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejecting
• refusing
• declining
• turning down
• repudiating
• discarding
• disapproving
• spurning
• throwing away
• throwing out
• negativing
• jettisoning

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cherry-picking

Another idea being considered is offering a four-pack of tickets to encourage fans to buy tickets to all the movies at once instead of cherry-picking one or two to watch in theaters and saving the rest for streaming. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

Families spent Mother's Day filling buckets and making memories at Dell'Osso Farms in Lathrop, where crowds gathered Sunday for cherry-picking season in the heart of California's top cherry-producing county. — Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 11 May 2026

Cha chaan tengs grew in popularity, cherry-picking elements from all three restaurants to create a new type of cuisine. — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026

But most of this research is co-authored by Sikiric, who holds several patents related to BPC-157, and some experts have accused him of cherry-picking evidence. — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

The Justice Department has pushed back on the defense suggestion that Bondi continues to profit from Ballard’s ongoing representation of UnitedHealth Group and accused Mangione’s lawyers of creating such a misimpression by cherry-picking language from her public financial disclosure report. — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026

Vartkessian renders them neither clinically nor sensationally—a fine line to walk—and cherry-picking details for this review feels grossly reductive, like a thumbnail sketch of a scene of desolation. — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 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

More than 85 scientists denounced the report, accusing officials of cherry-picking facts and figures to allow for the administration’s fossil fuel ambitions. — Solcyré Burga, Time, 23 Sep. 2025