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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
Noun
When Daria called the number he’d given, someone picked up on the first ring. Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025 The pilot was not picked up to series. Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2025 Sydney Sweeney picked up an accolade for her latest big-screen transformation. Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025 Another business hoping to pick up some of the traffic is Riding’s Kayak the Colorado. Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pickup
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickup
Verb
  • Not all of us have the time to master electrical wiring or the budget to hire a Taskrabbit.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
  • My protagonist feels similarly sheepish about her inability to master another language.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The friends then began attempting to collect more evidence and information and document the encounters through photography (thanks to a psychology professor lending him a camera) and journal entries.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The research team collected 138 needle samples from 23 spruce trees growing near the Kittilä gold mine in Northern Finland.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • He was thrilled when, at age 12, his parents bought a Baldwin grand piano secondhand from the University of Central Arkansas.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2025
  • If viewers buy into this concept of a mobile academy, season 3 won't be far behind.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This was the round when Liverpool lost yet again, Arsenal moved to the top of the Premier League, Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca lost his cool but gained a few friends and Manchester United won a fairly straightforward, drama-free match.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Honer, a former college diver, moved to Nashville in 2024 after gaining viral success.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The fragrance opens with this bright, fizzy combination of raspberry, orange flower, and mandarin that immediately lifts your mood.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Eight, maybe nine years removed from swiping worms from the corner store and lifting loose change from cars in the mall parking lot.
    Allen Iverson, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Los Angeles — Nine months after a raging inferno decimated the Los Angeles area, claiming the lives of a dozen people and burning down thousands of homes and businesses, officials have arrested a suspect in Florida on suspicion of arson.
    Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Boosie was arrested in May 2023 while visiting San Diego, where he was slated to shoot a music video and make a club appearance.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There is no news as to when visits to Haiti will resume.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Third, Netanyahu's insistence on resuming fighting in Gaza to achieve absolute victory was never practical, as the United States learned in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Israel in the West Bank.
    Ehud Barak, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tommy Castellanos threw a pair of touchdown passes (with two-point conversions) and drove into field goal range to trim Miami’s lead from 28-3 to 28-22.
    Manny Navarro, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Built-in editing tools enable you to crop, trim, merge clips, add watermarks, and extract subtitles for complete control.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Pickup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickup. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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