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cherry-picks

verb

present tense third-person singular of cherry-pick
as in selects
to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities cherry-picked the spacious corner office for his corporate fief

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Recent Examples of cherry-picks Huston unfortunately cherry-picks the best of his state without acknowledging the worst. — Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026 The company’s legal rebuttal says Toberoff’s case cherry-picks key information, leaving out important context showing that Musk was aware of and endorsed a conversion. — Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026 The order cherry-picks lawless acts by persons alleged to be members of left-wing groups but never mentions the violence by right-wing groups. — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025 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
  1. selects
  2. chooses
  3. picks
Verb
  • Amazon also said 92 percent of Sponsored Products ads are not given to the highest bidder because the company selects winners based on a combination of price and relevancy to the keyword search.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
  • When there are multiple logical possibilities for what the next word should be, the model typically selects one of those words by chance, based on their relative frequencies in the data.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of selects
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  • If a woman chooses a hospital, that is her right, but traditional birth should always be an option.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Even if the team chooses to lean more heavily on its ground game, those touches won’t flow to a single player.
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of chooses
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  • Rookie third-round picks Caleb Douglas and Chris Bell will open the season as Dolphins starting receivers (at least in three-receiver sets), coach Jeff Hafley said Wednesday.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The optional app usually picks appealing but innocuous images of travel scenes and animals as daily wallpapers on Windows PC desktops.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026
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“Cherry-picks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cherry-picks. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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