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
  • But Turek knows the race against Hinson is making out to be one of the most competitive Senate contests in the country.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Likewise, this season, dancers making out at Diesel made spectators part of the performance.
    — Joan Kennedy, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of making out
Verb
  • OpenAI said the partnership would bring different expertise and approaches to identifying weaknesses.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.
    — Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of identifying
Verb
  • Critiques of power To put it bluntly, many Black South Africans are not picking up what the DA is putting down.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Byfield beat goalie Samuel Ersson with a snap shot from the high slot, with Drew Doughty picking up his third assist of the night on the play.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 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 9 Nov. 2026.

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