pick over

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pick over
Verb
  • Haas, Tyron, and Gutierrez remain in police custody at the Smith County Jail in Tyler, Texas, according to inmate records reviewed by PEOPLE this week.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • For Temu, Eurofins Assurance will inspect merchandise including apparel, textiles and jewelry and outdoor furniture, among other categories.
    Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Lower Skin Inflammation One study examined the effects of black, green, and white tea extracts on psoriatic skin inflammation in mice.
    Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 4 Apr. 2025
  • In 2023, the Whitney Museum and Menil Collection organized the first Asawa exhibition to examine the primacy of drawings in her practice, influenced by the former Bauhaus teacher and artist Josef Albers at Black Mountain.
    Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Friday’s news conference was held while police were actively investigating the city’s most recent homicide, which left a mother dead outside her south Kansas City home Friday.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
  • With an imaging platform capable of recording the cell wall building from start to finish, the team plans to investigate how disrupting different genes and different pathways would affect the wall assembly process.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Guests who have opted into the biometric journey will be asked to scan their passport and look into the camera of one of the biometric face pods which will then validate their information.
    Robin Raven, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Possibly this is because they were built by scanning edited and airbrushed photos—not just of professionally attractive people, but of us.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • With the new directive to scrutinize said practices to approve mergers, the agency is taking a significant departure from its traditional role.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Agents with Homeland Security Investigations — a criminal investigative agency under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — began to scrutinize the company while investigating drug traffickers in 2022.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Pick over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pick%20over. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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