selected

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This May, the Navy selected Saronic along with six other companies to advance to the at-sea testing phase of the Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel program.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Fans who are randomly selected for the Visa presale will be notified of their time slot on July 27.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

To further explain how life molecules may have been naturally selected and stabilized, the author identifies 4 essential elements and conditions related to the OoL on Earth:

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

"When you are selected, you feel that all your hard work was worth it. Years of effort finally made sense."

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

The unusual time of morning to perform the exhumation was selected to thwart possible newsmen and curiosity-seekers from ogling the corpse and possibly taking photographs.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady