picker
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“It’s really masking what is a quite obvious correction. If you’re a stock picker, or you own anything besides a few select tech names, it can be a big problem.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
The problem, says Lharong Drolma, a second-generation mushroom picker who is unrelated to Sonam Drolma, is that “fewer people are buying them, probably because the economy was already bad.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Daniel Barbou, an 84-year-old grape picker, joined a small army of laborers in the scramble to harvest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Harry Machin, a volunteer litter picker in Peterborough, said other councils could learn from Cambridge.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Could you bring the cherry picker up to the nest?”
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
When the first day of the apple harvest rolled around in Washington State last year, the fruit was ripe and the pickers were ready – but the weather had other ideas.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
But there are optimists too, such as a man who told us his last name was Zhang, standing alongside potato pickers in a field near the data centres.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Also read: Stock pickers know they can’t outsmart the market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
While some stock pickers prioritize emotion over reason, many remain rooted in reality.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
That time of year, I could even feed myself by sneaking into the orchards and gleaning whatever fruits the pickers missed.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
