pick out

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Recent Examples of pick out These dogs get to pick out toys, work a treat puzzle or flop down on a couch with volunteers. Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025 Still just 22, the 2024 third-round pick out of Utah had a sack in the Broncos’ season opener, two pressures against the Colts and four more against the Chargers. Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025 Michael King received $100,000 as a 12th-round pick out of Boston College in 2016. Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025 Price Besides the main Android/iOS question, price is the simplest difference between the watches to pick out. PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pick out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pick out
Verb
  • The works include a cow made out of 700 pounds of butter, which will sit in a custom, 38 degrees Fahrenheit case.
    Ayana Archie, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • There are pictures of them making out online.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Authorities identified the shooter as Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of the neighboring small town of Burton.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • During the investigation, detectives identified and contacted a witness in Phoenix, prompting a joint investigation between the Sheriff's Office and the Phoenix Police Department, Nanos said.
    Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the Detroit Lions picked up another win, defeating the Cleveland Browns.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of going to the air to pick up a decent chunk of yardage, Canales played it safe and suffered the consequences.
    Mike Kaye September 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One of the six runways at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport was closed for about 45 minutes early Saturday afternoon after reports of a drone sighting around noon (1000 GMT), military police spokesman Doron Wallin told The Associated Press.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Pasquatch sighting in Cleveland!
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In August, a single-engine Piper PA-28 crash landed on southbound Interstate 805 in Sorrento Valley after the pilot noticed the engine was sputtering and losing power.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For almost the entire bloated two-hour run time, Black keeps his foot on the accelerator in the hope that audiences won’t notice the haphazard, barely logical plotting.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And even as people's viewing habits aren't the same as in 2000, there's still so much interest in these shows online.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Ross is also taller, giving officers more viewing coverage above crowds than Walking Horses, which can be as short as 14 hands, or 4 feet, 9 inches tall.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Her observations and subsequent magazine and documentary appearances in the 1960s transformed how the world perceived not only humans' closest living biological relatives but also the emotional and social complexity of all animals, while propelling her into the public consciousness.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her observations and subsequent magazine and documentary appearances in the 1960s transformed how the world perceived not only humans’ closest living biological relatives but also the emotional and social complexity of all animals, while propelling her into the public consciousness.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025

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