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as in to clean house
to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff I thought you said you had picked up, so why are these things still lying around the rec room?

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as in to resume
to begin again or return to after an interruption after the protestors were removed from the auditorium, the speaker picked up his lecture right where he had left off

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pickup

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noun

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Recent Examples of pickup
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Johnny picked up the business of pollo a la brasa from his own father, Yuen Jam Tan, who brought his family from Hong Kong to Peru in the nineteen-sixties, learned the art of the rotisserie, and then, in the seventies, brought it to Queens. Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025 General manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, in fact, did well to sign Wentz — idle after not being picked up by anyone after last season — the week after training camp came to a close. John Shipley, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025 The teal team did pick up a signature win the previous Monday night, topping the incumbent AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs behind Lawrence’s slip-and-score touchdown scramble. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025 The redshirt sophomore has great size for the QB position, a live arm and the mobility to pick up chunks of yardage on the ground (284 rushing yards in 2025). Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pickup
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  • During a trip to Mallon Farm with Prince William, the Princess of Wales mastered fall style with a black turtleneck, a cardigan, and a utility jacket.
    Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Altogether, the ensemble was similar to countryside ‘fits worn by her predecessors, Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth, who had mastered the art of sporty but still feminine dressing for the UK’s chillier climates.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • Hackman was not only a collector but an artist himself, and his approach to collecting mirrors the care, aesthetic sensibility, and discipline evident in his own artistic practice.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Other teams might act as if a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow, yet unlike money, draft picks do not collect interest.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Meanwhile 17% of consumers said will buy inflatables, animatronics or other large lawn displays.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But these adaptations can buy only so much time.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • Over the last two decades of accelerating digital politics, commentators are constantly pausing to observe that one party seems to have gained a permanent edge.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Triumph Financial gained more than 2% in thin trading.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • The research team also revealed that the robots can change their shape and gait to adapt to different terrains or to perform a variety of functions, such as gripping and lifting objects.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Two teaspoons of baking powder lift the dense cookie dough into puffy masterpieces.
    Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Bilodeau was arrested Tuesday and arraigned in a Nassau County court Wednesday morning.
    Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • One particularly aggressive military style raid on an apartment building in south Chicago saw dozens arrested and children separated from their parents.
    Connor Greene, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • Since the state resumed executions last year following an involuntary 13-year pause due to trouble obtaining lethal injection drugs, four inmates have selected lethal injection and two have died by firing squad.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The rapid proliferation and growth of spot ETFs like those for bitcoin and ether – as well as the potential for dozens more once regulatory operations resume at full capacity – also ties into another important change.
    Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • The Royal Navy crew achieved the major milestone as part of HMS Agamemnon’s ‘trim dive’, a three-day period of testing in the town’s Devonshire Dock to prove the attack vessel’s stability and safety.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Brockman electrocuted while trimming trees On the day he was electrocuted, Brockman and his work crew were removing limbs that were close to Evergy power lines, the lawsuit said.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Pickup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickup. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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