hand-pick
Example Sentences
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Then there’s Hortiz, the man who worked behind the scenes to hand-pick the players behind the team’s first 11-win season since 2018.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025
She told police: "I wanted her on the unit, I really did. When students come through the system you are almost able to hand-pick the creme de la creme and she was one of those."
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024
Pena's political career took off when protests in 2016 forced then-President Cartes to abandon plans to seek an extra term by amending the constitution and to hand-pick Pena as his intended successor.
From Reuters • May 1, 2023
He had to hand-pick his own allies, personally banish his enemies within the party and beat the living tar out of the rest at the ballot box in primaries.
From Washington Times • May 19, 2022
I hand-pick my apples in a sack, using a ladder.
From The Apple by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.