picker

as in selector
someone with the right or responsibility for making a selection a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

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Recent Examples of picker Beatriz Adriana Aguilera Fonseca, a former apple picker, works at a Mexican food market in Sodus, N.Y., about 40 minutes east of Rochester, where shoppers began to request deliveries in recent months. Ana Ley, New York Times, 30 May 2025 Ramsay’s filmmaking is undeniably powerful, engulfing us in the sick stew of Grace’s mind while flooding the soundtrack with music from Lou Reed, David Bowie, and the Cocteau Twins (Ramsay has always been an apt picker of songs that tell the psychic story of her films’ protagonists). Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2025 The two have been widely expected to become Berkshire’s stock pickers after Mr. Buffett steps away, though Mr. Combs has also become the chief executive of Geico. Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 3 May 2025 My three friends all had to spend a few minutes getting used to using their phone screen as a multi-modal controller: touchpad for hex movement and cursor pointing, card picker and info box reader, and then the town landscape screen. ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for picker
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voter
Noun
  • Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, and sought to win over Black voters in 2020 with promises including establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • Senate Republicans will need to remove the provisions from the bill or otherwise would have to muster 60 voters to overcome a point of order against the bill.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 20 June 2025

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