picking out

verb

present participle of pick out
as in looking (at)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picking out
  1. making out
  2. identifying
  3. picking up
Verb
  • Likewise, this season, dancers making out at Diesel made spectators part of the performance.
    — Joan Kennedy, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
  • That’s no longer what, a few years ago, might have been described as a cautious approach, not when audiences are making out-of-nowhere titles like Obsession and Backrooms into buzzy hits and craving something new.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of making out
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  • After Saturday’s tragedy, someone sent him the picture identifying Goulding as one of those killed.
    — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • As tasks like writing code, identifying bugs, or writing emails get automated away by AI, employees at Anthropic have now found that the big picture tasks are increasingly what count.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of identifying
Verb
  • But the tireless churn of his storytelling, picking up and depositing little clues of what came before, is the mark of an auteur who has barely scratched the surface of his prowess.
    — Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Most of the wild weather starts tonight, with wind speeds picking up and temperatures ticking up during the overnight hours behind a warm front and warm air advection.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of picking up
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“Picking out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picking%20out. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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