handpicked
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Even one of Mamdani’s handpicked congressional candidates joined the call.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Investors now expect his handpicked chairman to reverse course and start raising them this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Ever the planner, Dolly worked with the team that she handpicked, for the past several years to build a project roadmap that will guide us for decades to come.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Nozell said that Parton had worked with her "handpicked" team for the past several years, to "build a project roadmap that will guide us for decades to come".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
If Mike Burry made $100 million when the subprime mortgage bonds he had handpicked defaulted, someone else must have lost $100 million.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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