cherry-picks

present tense third-person singular of cherry-pick

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of cherry-picks The group’s report cherry-picks information and misrepresents uncertainties. H. Christopher Frey, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cherry-picks
Verb
  • Each year, a jury made up of Netflix execs and invited guests selects one Brazilian fiction film from the festival that hasn’t yet landed a streaming deal.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The commission, comprising 17 voting members, selects a preferred candidate, whom the Prime Minister then approves.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Teoscar Hernández chooses the right time to hustle No one has felt the highs and lows of this series quite like Hernández, whose defensive gaffe in the second inning of Game 1 exacerbated the Dodgers’ early deficit and whose bat lifted them to a 5-3 victory that night.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • As anger fades into apathy and grief is aggravated by guilt, the public also chooses silence.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That means just about any food-and-Miami related subject is fair game, from who picks the avocados and celebrations of the different culinary cultures of Miami to why everyone in this town is willing to sell their literal souls and possibly their children for mangoes every summer.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Commit to the draft picks on defense McMillan might already be the Panthers’ best player.
    Joseph Person, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Cherry-picks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cherry-picks. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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