PICKING OUT Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

picking out

verb

present participle of pick out

as in looking (at)

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Likewise, this season, dancers making out at Diesel made spectators part of the performance.

— Joan Kennedy, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
That’s no longer what, a few years ago, might have been described as a cautious approach, not when audiences are making out-of-nowhere titles like Obsession and Backrooms into buzzy hits and craving something new.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of making out

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Bahdanau was working with artificial neural networks, which had already shown promise in pattern-recognition tasks such as deciphering handwriting and identifying objects in photos.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
That’s what the remaining 12 games of this season is about, identifying and investing in what’s salvageable.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of identifying

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But the tireless churn of his storytelling, picking up and depositing little clues of what came before, is the mark of an auteur who has barely scratched the surface of his prowess.

— Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Most of the wild weather starts tonight, with wind speeds picking up and temperatures ticking up during the overnight hours behind a warm front and warm air advection.

— Ron Smiley, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

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