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 The backlash prompted OpenAI to revive the model picker, bringing back GPT-4o. PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025 The mix of veteran pickers and younger local high school kids grab a drink from a water tank and wet their heads to cool off. Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025 And again, another position that is hard to fill are those pickers. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025 But this year half of them did not arrive, and many of his neighbors were scrambling for pickers too. David Culver, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for picker
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Noun
  • Titleist makes excellent balls at all price points, and the range is so varied and options so complex that the company has a very useful ball selector tool on its website to guide you through.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • They were whittled down to the final 26 players by a panel of selectors.
    Peter Carline, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In The Charlotte Observer’s voter guide for the election, read about Mayor Vi Lyles, the most competitive council races and questionnaires from all candidates on the ballot.
    Josh Bergeron, Charlotte Observer, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The federal rollback has disproportionately impacted states like Virginia and Maryland, which are so close to Washington, and have become a sore point for Republicans as voters react negatively to the hiring reductions.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The story centers around a night where Samu (Cordes) and his girlfriend Siena (ven der Zwaag) return to his old friend group and challenge them to push their boundaries by throwing their keys in a bowl and randomly picking a set, with each chooser spending the night with the owner of the keys.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Picker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picker. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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