chosen

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This trade-off is valuable when telescope time is limited and follow-up observations must be carefully chosen.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

She writes, “I wondered why he’d chosen him, rather than Leila, as his focus,” and guessed at how Jim might work with women based on this first film: “I assumed wrong.”

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

"Hungary has chosen Europe," wrote Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission on X in English and Hungarian.

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

But if I was happy to be rid of the house, I wasn’t ready to be rid of its contents, including furniture and artworks I had chosen with some care.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

“I’ve been chosen from the bamboo class to be on the relay team.”

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr