Synonyms of selects

selects

verb

present tense third-person singular of select

as in chooses

to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities

selected only two people out of 300 applicants for the summer internship

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chooses
• picks
• elects
• takes
• prefers
• designates
• names
• handpicks
• culls
• cherry-picks
• nominates
• tags
• opts (for)
• singles (out)
• accepts
• appoints
• adopts
• taps
• preselects
• embraces
• marks
• sets
• espouses
• tabs
• fixes
• settles (on or upon)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejects
• refuses
• declines
• turns down
• disapproves
• spurns
• repudiates
• discards
• negatives
• throws out
• throws away
• jettisons

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of selects

Stark also selects spring rates according to the rider's weight when the motorcycle is ordered, rather than sending every customer home with the same setup. — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026

Candidates will also participate in panel interviews before the city manager selects a new police chief. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026

Weiner said Trump consistently selects loyalists with limited experience to lead national security agencies. — Greg Myre, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026

An object can become art because the artist selects it and invites us to think about it differently. — Matthew Palczynski, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026

Mission Austria, the organization that selects the Miss and Mister Austria titleholders, was among those paying tribute to Sisic on social media. — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2026

Amazon also said 92 percent of Sponsored Products ads are not given to the highest bidder because the company selects winners based on a combination of price and relevancy to the keyword search. — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026

When there are multiple logical possibilities for what the next word should be, the model typically selects one of those words by chance, based on their relative frequencies in the data. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

The list is refreshed monthly as each analyst selects their top picks from a 12-month outlook. — Assiatou Hann, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2026