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Recent Examples of pickersThey are provided with tools, including a safety vest, gloves, bags, buckets, and trash pickers.—
Brian Sherrod,
CBS News,
30 July 2026 So if people are in the area, there might be a plethora of blueberry pickers and people out grouse hunting.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
29 July 2026 The risks are especially acute for temporary workers, subcontractors and waste pickers, the study said.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
17 June 2026 My aunt and uncle, who live in Santa Fe—home to the International Folk Art Market, one of the largest such festivals in the world (the next one is July 9-12)—are devoted flea-market pickers and collectors of antique oddities.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026 There would be the pickers going through drawers looking for a good deal, and the antique-loving Southerners hoping to find a set of Chantilly silver to complete their 12-person table.—
Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
15 May 2026 There is an enchanting atmosphere given by the feeling of the end of summer and the hard work of the grape pickers.—
Laura Itzkowitz,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026 Strawberries also highlights the various challenges that foreign fruit pickers have encountered in real-life trials, from language barriers and religious and cultural differences to the fear of being stigmatized back home.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026 Plastic waste is largely collected as part of the dry-waste stream under municipal systems, with significant contribution by informal waste pickers and scrap dealers.—
Aman Kumar,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 May 2026
Democratic primary voters picked their nominees on Tuesday for three battleground House seats in Virginia that are likely to determine control of the lower chamber in the 2026 midterm elections.
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Sophia Mandt,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Aug. 2026
In the weeks since the protests, Modi has increasingly appeared in short, vertical videos tailored for Instagram and other platforms popular with young voters.
In some ultra-competitive genres—Northern soul, hip-hop, jungle—selectors have been known to cover up the center stickers of their records, or leave white labels unmarked, to throw boothsnooping DJs off the scent.
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Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
18 July 2026
The Edsel also introduced the Teletouch transmission, which placed push-button gear selectors in the center of the steering wheel.
As the commentators in a recent American updating of the traditional Passover Haggadah point out, people who identify as Jews have a much easier time these days thinking of themselves as choosers than as chosen.
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Sophia Rosenfeld
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025