Thesaurus results for PICKS OFF

picks off

verb

present tense third-person singular of pick off

as in intercepts

to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course picked off more passes than any other player in the division

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Recent Examples of picks off George Rose / Getty Images Over the course of his NFL playing days, Jim had 19 interceptions, including picks off the likes of legendary quarterbacks like Len Dawson, Archie Manning and Joe Namath. —

Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026 On another night, Notre Dame picks off Reed two or three times. —

Pete Sampson, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025

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The process intercepts industrial carbon emissions before they are released into the atmosphere and converts them into recycled fibers.

— Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 17 Apr. 2026
Kagan and his colleagues showed that within minutes, neurons on microchips could learn to play Pong, the classic video game in which a player repeatedly intercepts a ball—think two-dimensional ping-pong.

— Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2026