to handpick
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3.7
- verb
- /ˈhændˌpɪk/
:
recoger a mano
- Each fall, 12 billion apples are handpicked in a harvest that passes through the land like a fever, and in which I have participated for the past three years in the guise of a novelist conducting research.
- handpick snails
- handpick pests
- handpick leaves
Examples
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The chef handpicks the freshest ingredients at the market each morning.
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Well, this is lazy or handpicked evidence.
Blog text (24) -
On the top part, I added metal washers which I handpicked based on their root note.
Blog text (16) -
The fresh fruit ought to be handpicked from the shrubs.
Blog text (10) -
The buildings were constructed of granite that had been handpicked and imported from Scotland.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm sure they did once upon a time when it took tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people to handpick the coal from the mines.
Blog text (17) -
The "great harvest" cannot be handpicked, only offered in a discard pile of bodily sacrifice.
Academic text (2008) -
They both lied and twisted the facts, and when they were not doing that, they were putting forward esoteric facts that were handpicked to support their position.
Blog text (12) -
Contractors can be found in the fields of nearly every handpicked crop in the United States, organic or conventional: green beans in Florida, grapefruit in Texas, peppers in Georgia, greens in Colorado, and garlic in California.
Blog text (4) -
Every year, the family handpicks the best apples from their orchard for the harvest festival.
Synonyms
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1.0
To choose carefully from a group
823
2.5
To choose someone or something from a group
20
3.8
To choose carefully by yourself for a special purpose
Antonyms
How Selective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Handpick first meant to pick fruit or flowers 'by hand', choosing the best ones one by one. So today it still means to gather or select items carefully and personally.