to cherry-pick
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- phrasal verb
- /ˈtʃɛriˌpɪk/
- Informal
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- He decided to cherry-pick the best candidates for the job after reviewing all the applications.
- cherry-pick the best
- cherry-picked data
- companies cherry-picking
People love the service and the ability to cherry pick the right leases.
- People love the service and the ability to cherry pick the right leases.
- But Bascar, what you are doing is cherry picking these countries.
- So they're not cherry picking the data either.
- Sort of cherry pick your war and go get rid of that tyrant.
- And so it was cherry picked for that reason, not for whether or not it was true.
- What I'm not going to do is cherry pick things on the other side of that hypothesis.
- But I could, I could thread the needle of science using these cherry picked studies.
- And, you know, people today say look at that and say, well, he cherry picked those six countries.
- That I, I, I still want there to be a universal field theory that maybe I'm cherry picking to try to dream one up.
- People here that are evangelical Christians cherry pick their morals based on what personally impacts them.
- If I, if it's a lesser known shitty person that I'm cherry picking to kind of dunk on, that's fucked up.
- That was the trailer there, Harry, You know, I mean, you know, you can, you can cherry pick parts of it that have not been good, but what's the point of that?
- You have a senator that cherry picks when he thinks government is good and when he thinks it is bad.
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People love the service and the ability to cherry pick the right leases.
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There is a reason why political candidates do their best to cherry-pick the current hot-button topics before each election.
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And, you know, people today say look at that and say, well, he cherry picked those six countries.
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You have a senator that cherry picks when he thinks government is good and when he thinks it is bad.
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And again, this is the same exact case law that the Colorado Supreme Court, they kind of cherry pick their choice on it.
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What I'm not going to do is cherry pick things on the other side of that hypothesis.
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So you can just cherry pick the bits that you want to achieve the aim that you want and and ignore the rest.
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So I've always needed to really kind of cherry pick the kind of skin care I look for.
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But Bascar, what you are doing is cherry picking these countries.
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I made a conscious choice to publish the entire transcript, rather than cherry-pick inflammatory pieces.
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Synonyms
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2.5
To choose someone or something from a group
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To choose carefully by yourself for a special purpose
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To look through items carefully to choose the best or remove bad ones
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4.6
Take the best people or things from a group, leaving the rest behind
To take the best people or things from a group for themselves
To choose the best people or things from a group
How Selective
- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cherry-pick comes from the simple image of picking the best cherries from a tree, with cherry and pick as the parts. So to cherry-pick is to choose only the best or most useful people or things from a group, often for yourself.