picked
Example Sentences
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One year’s national champion, once picked over, can become the next season’s also-ran.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
“I sang unconsciously a lot. My patients always picked up on it — they’d be like, ‘Every time you come in, you’re singing.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Hiring picked up not just in the healthcare and social assistance sectors—which added 89,900 jobs—but also in construction and transportation and warehousing.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Starting in January 2025, Nokia’s sensors had picked up a series of increasingly powerful cyberattacks coming from devices that hadn’t previously been considered dangerous.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
He’d picked up some of my clothes from the stack when he’d entered the house.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
