PICKS OVER Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

picks over

verb

present tense third-person singular of pick over

as in checks (out)

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As these legal complaints shake out, and UC Davis audits its own processes, former members of UC Davis’ championship-winning equestrian team are figuring out how to move forward.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
In Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam, workers report intimidation, surveillance and firing threats to suppress organizing—all tactics that audits routinely miss.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2026

Definition of audits

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Emanuel Maiberg talks to an employee at the warehouse where Amazon scans and destroys books for AI training.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
One camera is used for AI perception and scans your lawn to identify objects and other lawn conditions, while the other two work in tandem as a stereo 3D vision system for real-time mapping.

— John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of scans

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Monar stressed that her country carefully reviews all exports of military equipment in accordance with international law.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
The Commission of Fine Arts, a seven-member council established by Congress that reviews all new public buildings in Washington, acting as a sort of aesthetic guardian, advised against the addition.

— Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of reviews

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The report also examines specific price moves from the Texas Senate primary contests.

— Garrett Downs, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change-makers wielding the technology for good and ill.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of examines

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Late Thursday afternoon, one of the companies involved in the condo elevator project told CBS News Chicago the bulk of the work is complete, but the elevator cannot be put into service until the state inspects it.

— Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) independently inspects and tests every discharge batch to ensure these radiation limits are consistently met.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of inspects

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Even Washington, for example, will have to expand the scope of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which scrutinizes only the acquisition of existing American companies, not factories foreign investors build from scratch.

— Chad P. Bown, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2026
The film also scrutinizes the failures across policing, the courts and social institutions that critics say let his abuse persist largely undetected for so long.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of scrutinizes

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Hutton thoughtfully explores the gender dynamics of reproductive rights issues by making Val a not wholly unsympathetic middle-woman between the men in power and one of the women impacted by their machinations.

— Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
But by rooting her tale in Maya’s family ties, the writer-director explores the complicity of well-to-do South Asian diasporas, and the foundations that afford them the luxury of emigrating in the first place.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of explores

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The researcher investigates them, includes one in the finished piece and publishes it.

— Mat Golubovic, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
For instance, InSAR finds where something is changing, laser scanning shows how a structure is deforming, and GPR investigates what may be happening underneath it.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

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