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selection

[si-lek-shuhn] / sɪˈlɛk ʃən /


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Proceedings will begin Monday with jury selection and are expected to last more than a week.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

So this is a selection of my favorite songs that will make you blush, but also make you laugh and dance.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

It isn’t quite natural selection, but it isn’t far off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

He’s a 10-time Pro Bowl selection whose moon ball is one of the prettiest, most dangerous downfield passes in league history.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

For a variant of gross-beaked finch to appear on a Galápagos island by natural selection, two seemingly contradictory facts had to be simultaneously true.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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