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
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Verb
  • Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The letters were made out of white tape.
    Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Salmon said his counselor suggested his attraction to men was his father’s fault because his job kept him away from home a lot, causing Salmon to identify more with his mother.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But that changed, and the case took a turn after two denizens of Nashville's street scene were identified as suspects.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • An army of around 200 volunteers from the church and several charities were making food, picking up trash, guiding guests and MC'ing dance showcases, said Mary Cantrell, who has been a key organizer since 1993.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Steve Sarkisian’s crew has wins over only San Jose State, UTEP and Sam Houston State, and thus a shocking number of questions as October gets rolling and SEC play picks up.
    Grace Raynor, New York Times, 5 Oct. 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
  • Police in Denmark said drones were sighted over the course of approximately five hours overnight from Wednesday into Thursday at Aalborg airport, causing its closure, and at smaller airports at Sønderborg and Esbjerg.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 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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