How to Use pick and choose in a Sentence
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Don’t most of us pick and choose in Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner?
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Cynthia Zarin,
Harpers Magazine,
1 Sep. 2026
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Carranza can survey the field but carries the ability to pick and choose when to run and when to sling the football.
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Ethan Hanson,
Daily News,
19 Aug. 2026
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Olympic sports are under a different kind of financial pressure as schools pick and choose different ways to fund them.
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Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2026
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Whether or not the music has merit, an artist must contend with the myriad corporate forces that have the power to pick and choose what breaks through the online scrum, and what doesn’t.
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Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2026
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Partly because of that, such index funds have usually proven to be better performers than funds that try to pick and choose individual stocks.
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Stan Choe,
Fortune,
13 June 2026
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