pick over

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pick over
Verb
  • In early August 2023, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker formed an Ad Hoc Council Committee on Emergency Medical Response to assess MedStar’s services and review other EMS models.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2025
  • The new law also requires school buses to be inspected every 12 months or 50,000 miles and have fire extinguishers and first aid kits on board.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 22 June 2025
Verb
  • Gi-hun examines Jun-hee’s swollen ankle, which seems impossible to jump on.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • The Congress must thoroughly examine this decision by the Supreme Court to find ways to legislate and protect the Constitutional right to citizenship for all those born in America.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • The national police Anti-Cybercrime Group is currently investigating another deepfake of Marcos promoting an online trading platform.
    Cecilia Hult, Fortune, 28 June 2025
  • The Los Angeles Police Department was called to investigate the incident and quickly zeroed in on Rodriguez after obtaining surveillance footage from nearby businesses.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Victor’s characters were magnetically awkward, their address was intimate and direct, and their creator scanned as a pretty weirdo with a tap on the discourse and on the possibilities of the contemporary internet.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 29 June 2025
  • Researchers with the organization scanned 700 miles of Lake Michigan using sonar technology and used models to recreate the weather patterns that Flight 2501 would have encountered the night of the crash.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • Five Ways To Take Action Companies that rely on country-specific top-level domains—especially on economically attractive but politically fragile ccTLDs such as .tv, .io or .ly—should critically scrutinize and safeguard their domain strategy.
    Daniel Strauss, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • But while America scrutinizes one man's reckoning in real time, thousands of other people with just as much at stake remain invisible.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
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“Pick over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pick%20over. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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