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 What is clear, Rubin said, is that stock pickers can shine in what’s likely to be a choppy market. Sarah Min, CNBC, 11 July 2025 Then there's Dan, a decade prior, in a living room bluegrass picker's pull. Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 One operation that usually employs 150 pickers is down to 20. Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025 Why are most worm pickers Vietnamese immigrants? . . . Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for picker
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voter
Noun
  • Many whites were aware of a lack of Black voter participation in the South but often lacked a deeper understanding of its causes and consequences.
    Time, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
  • That's trying to dilute the voices of voters of color.
    Leila Fadel, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Picker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picker. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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