picking
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He poured money into the operation, enabling it to whisk berries onto store shelves via refrigerated trucks within two days of picking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The mistake is picking a winner prematurely and stopping your learning.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The investment implication of this new research is that long-term investors need not obsess about demographic projections when picking countries in which to invest.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
"We are picking up now probably 10 to 20 a week in specialist attracting traps, which is to be expected due to the extent of it."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Hi, Mrs. Lopez, thanks for picking me up.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
And while the U.S. ended up with the lion’s share of the matches, Canada was left with slim pickings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But for 2½ hours she got the error message and could not access the pool of tickets until 12:30 p.m., by which time, she said, “the pickings were slim.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
But for those who poured in to see eight-time Ballon d'Or-winner Messi there were slim pickings, as the tightly marked 38-year-old failed to get a shot on target despite Miami dominating possession.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
He explained that, if seals have smaller areas of sea ice available to them, they will congregate in those smaller areas, presenting easier collective pickings for bears.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
They circled out over the bay in search of better pickings.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
