selectors

plural of selector
as in voters
someone with the right or responsibility for making a selection the librarians who are the selectors of the annual award for best children's book

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Recent Examples of selectors Australia’s selectors have made their own mess, displaying an uncharacteristic toothlessness as Warner’s numbers waned. Sam Dalling, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025 But then Rotterdam film festival selectors watched the movie and decided to screen it in competition. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Arkansas elections are currently conducted using two devices -- an ExpressVote device, which is the machine voters use to mark ballots, and the DS200 tabulator.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Close to a million voters cast their ballots before the Democrats announced their plan, while the redistricting session took delegates off the trail during the final full week of campaigning.
    Jahd Khalil, NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The takeaway for stock-pickers, though, is far from clear-cut.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Ira and Myrle hoped to find work as cotton pickers.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As the commentators in a recent American updating of the traditional Passover Haggadah point out, people who identify as Jews have a much easier time these days thinking of themselves as choosers than as chosen.
    Sophia Rosenfeld September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Selectors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selectors. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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