as in winnowed (out)
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picked over
Adjective
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After establishing position at the net front, Guentzel tipped a shot from the top of the zone by Charle-Edouard D’Astous over the glove of the screened Lankinen.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026 -
With both Macklin Celebrini and Brent Burns serving penalties, Manson, in a 4-on-4 situation, took a pass from Valeri Nichushkin and blasted a shot past a screened Askarov for his fifth goal of the season.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Yet this is also the same company that ripped the spine off millions of books, scanned their pages, and fed the text into Claude’s training data.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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In August last year, McGrath scanned Ralph's brain using an MRI machine.—
Will Croxton,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Because of the lack of local oversight, the Esparto operation, which sat on land owned by multiple Yolo County Sheriff's Office employees, was never properly inspected or regulated.—
Ashley Sharp,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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These breeders are licensed and inspected by the USDA and typically have additional licensing and inspection requirements at the state level, as well.—
Ed Sayres,
Denver Post,
29 Mar. 2026
Verb
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It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The new study examined only brief interactions with chatbots.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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Each of the 13 sharks examined for the study tested positive for high levels of cocaine, CBS News reported at the time.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Picked over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picked%20over. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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