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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The excess of emotion often scans as winkingly facetious, a dramatization to demonstrate just how deeply a person loves books.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
The Incogni app, a PCMag Editors’ Choice winner, scans hundreds of people-search websites and personal data aggregators and automates the process of opting your data out of their collections.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 8 July 2026

Definition of scans

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After countries nominate their most consistently top officials, FIFA carefully reviews the candidates and narrows down an elite list of potential referees, assistant referees and video assistant referees.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
The Social Security Administration (SSA) reviews your lifetime earnings and averages your 35 highest-earning years into a monthly amount known as your Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME).

— Trina Paul,Dan Avery, CNBC, 10 July 2026

Definition of reviews

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The team combined two fast-growing areas of quantum research by using a magnetic topological material to study non-Hermitian physics, an emerging field that examines systems with unconventional behavior.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
Luck…or Something is a raw album that closely examines married life and, well, existential dread?

— Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 9 July 2026

Definition of examines

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Typically, an embryologist inspects embryos produced through IVF and assesses their quality.

— Edna Bonhomme, Scientific American, 6 July 2026
The robot inspects nearby infrastructure on its own schedule, then finds its way back to the station, latches on, recharges inductively, and offloads its data, all without a ship or a crew anywhere nearby.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 July 2026

Definition of inspects

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Nobody scrutinizes whether a wine marketer drinks or a skincare marketer uses their own serums.

— Peter Su, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
The Samsara navigation system, a suite of road- and driver-facing cameras installed inside commercial trucks, punitively scrutinizes drivers for safety violations.

— Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026

Definition of scrutinizes

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The book-length poem, set at a private party, explores the decadent lifestyles associated with the movie industry in California in the 1920s.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
For every exhibition, book, and article that explores a sliver of our history, there are millions of stories that are not yet written—or that are still waiting for enough evidence to put together.

— Lonnie G. Bunch III, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026

Definition of explores

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Working with businesses, residents and neighborhood watch groups, the POP unit receives tips from community members and investigates them.

— Reeti Malhotra July 13, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
The New York City Department of Investigation is the city’s independent watchdog agency, which investigates fraud, corruption, misconduct, municipal malfeasance, city employees, contractors, and individuals who do business with the city.

— Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 11 July 2026

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