handpicked
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Dermer handpicked Rispoli because of what he had seen him do in sketch comedy — an ability to physically transform into a new character with ease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
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
Over the following months, Snead traded away his handpicked starting quarterback and a haul of seven draft picks for proven veterans who were ready to win immediately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Even the project director of Socios en Salud—a small, studious Peruvian doctor named Jaime Bayona, handpicked by Jim Kim to run daily operations—told him so.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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