selecting
Example Sentences
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Emmanuel Banuelos spent weeks planning the perfect proposal, selecting a picturesque spot at a Laguna Beach park, enlisting his soon-to-be sister-in-law as a videographer and booking a mariachi band to play his girlfriend’s favorite music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
That comment points to the long-term philosophy he and Gogia follow when selecting companies in which to invest.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Accounts described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell, and mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
A battlefield dominated by fully autonomous drones capable of selecting and engaging targets without human intervention sounds like a dystopian sci-fi plot.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Did you read over the company’s brochure and the spec sheets? The Nexus-6 brain unit they’re using now is capable of selecting within a field of two trillion constituents, or ten million separate neural pathways.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
