picker

as in selector
someone with the right or responsibility for making a selection a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

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Recent Examples of picker The two have been widely expected to become Berkshire’s stock pickers after Mr. Buffett steps away, though Mr. Combs has also become the chief executive of Geico. Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 3 May 2025 My three friends all had to spend a few minutes getting used to using their phone screen as a multi-modal controller: touchpad for hex movement and cursor pointing, card picker and info box reader, and then the town landscape screen. ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025 Stop by the Tackle Box Bait shop anytime between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, and Friday, May 23, or 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 24, and Sunday, May 25, to get a bucket and a picker to collect litter. Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025 When Norma dies, the family gathers, and Delia, an apple picker (who works with Charlie); Cece, the professor and Bebe, the DJ, all head home to the family estate. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for picker
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voter
Noun
  • The only category of voters who could turn out for Lander might be anti-Cuomo, but pro-Israel voters who can’t stomach a vote for anti-Israel socialist Mamdani.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
  • The recall effort primarily stems from voters’ frustration with how White, along with county assessment director Gail McCann Beatty, set property tax values on real estate during the 2023 assessment cycle.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2025

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