as in to make out
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Recent Examples of pick out
The 22-year-old Villani was the Dodgers’ 13th-round pick out of Long Beach State in 2024.
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Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 29 May 2025
The Athletic has picked out some players who are in that situation and could be targeted by Club World Cup participants.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 28 May 2025
Even amid the more boisterous parts of the track, the speakers pick out the subtleties.
—PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
The trees were glowing with hoarfrost down there, picked out golden by the low rays of sunlight.
—Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
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Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 29 May 2025
The Athletic has picked out some players who are in that situation and could be targeted by Club World Cup participants.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 28 May 2025
Even amid the more boisterous parts of the track, the speakers pick out the subtleties.
—PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
The trees were glowing with hoarfrost down there, picked out golden by the low rays of sunlight.
—Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pick out
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Shields, who also wore a diamond ring gifted to her by Michael Jackson, sported a bag made out of red curtains from Radio City Music Hall before it was renovated.—
Emily Burns,
Footwear News,
9 June 2025
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Soon after the fire, the insurer issued a settlement check, but it was made out to us and the mortgage lender.—
Robert Kaplan,
Mercury News,
3 June 2025
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Miami-Dade Fire Rescue pronounced the driver, who was not identified, dead at the scene.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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Weaver, who helped launch USAID's NTD Program in 2006, says that one of the principal aims of the program in the early years was to identify the most effective and efficient strategies.—
Patrick Adams,
NPR,
5 June 2025
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So far, Tisdale said, the community has helped pick up the slack from the loss of other food sources.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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Investors have picked up on this, which is why BTO’s pricing went from around par earlier this year to today’s premium.—
Michael Foster,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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Taiwan’s National Communications Commission website shows two MagSafe chargers which Apple has never announced, sighted by 91mobiles.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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The last recorded Willy sighting was in 2012, and giant manta rays have been reported to live to 45 years.—
Kathleen Rellihan,
Outside Online,
8 June 2025
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Nineteenth-century Americans did not simply notice hair’s unusual properties.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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La Rue claims Leto was observing her so intensely that her mother noticed.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2025
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Those viewing at home needed detailed spreadsheets, some running 50 pages or more, to keep track of things.—
Steve Bousquet,
Sun Sentinel,
14 June 2025
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If Trafford, who is 22, does end up joining Newcastle, that experience of Ruddy’s is viewed as vital in terms of being a role model.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
13 June 2025
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The second, somewhat more complex task was designed to check if the implant enabled the mice to consciously perceive light—in other words, whether the visual stimuli were properly converted into signals in the right areas of their brains.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2025
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He’s not perceived as a crazy guy who’s a radical, who has scary opinions.—
Nic Juarez,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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“Pick out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pick%20out. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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