selective

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The broad selloff may be followed with some selective buying later on.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

“Some of these were based on complete junk science and a selective cherry-picking of statistics,” Ms. Dhillon says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

At the 23 selective private colleges Burd studied, these students were asked to pay an average of $24,000 a year.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

That same year, then-President Ronald Reagan, who had initially campaigned against the reinstated selective service, decided he would keep it.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

If he got rejected at Chicago, would he muster the confidence to try again, perhaps at a slightly less selective school like Loyola or DePaul or the U of I?

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz