How to Use cherry-pick in a Sentence

cherry-pick

verb
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  • Even the politicians who attended the rallies cherry-picked which parts to respond to.
    — Em Readman, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
  • Her job: monitoring Western broadcasts to cherry-pick news that showed the West in a bad light to air on the network’s shows.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • There, shoppers could cherry-pick from different eras to curate their looks.
    — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Threads is a brand extension versus a totally new product, and the early joiners (like me) were easy to cherry-pick at launch.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • Boston even cherry-picked some strategy from the Warriors.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • As the genre turns 50, its most rewarding songs wisely cherry-pick from the past while staying true to rap’s reputation as a harbinger of what’s next.
    — Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Democrats warn that Trump supporters would cherry-pick clips of the video to spin conspiracy theories.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Fox said Dominion had mischaracterized the record and cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.
    — David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The speed at which the Saudi league has been able to cherry-pick such familiar, if fading, names from Europe’s elite clubs has made the country’s ambition feel like an inevitability.
    — Ahmed Al Omran, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • The San Sebastian film festival has cherry-picked the best of Cannes’ competition lineup for its Perlak section this year.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Taxpayers deserve an independent and complete review — not cherry-picking topics and then putting a thumb on the scale.
    — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Enck accused the plastics industry of cherry-picking research, too.
    — Emily Le Coz, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • Prosecutors, however, said Trump’s defense had cherry-picked two of Chutkan’s statements out of context and misapplied the law to wrongly argue that the judge was biased against him.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Well, and speaking of which, some of your Republican colleagues have cherry-picked some of the images to frankly further some conspiracy theories.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • But potential 2027 election rivals like Ruffin are also cherry-picking elements of her rhetoric to make their own case to voters.
    — Ania Nussbaum, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
  • The Biden administration pushed back on the findings by Republicans, calling it a partisan effort that sought to cherry-pick facts ahead of an election.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Ruth Holton-Hudson mischaracterizes the Exxon lawsuits, cherry-picks the stock data and blames the fossil fuel companies for climate change.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
  • Fox News, which denies any wrongdoing, has accused Dominion of cherry-picking emails to present a self-serving narrative about what the right-wing network did after the 2020 election.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Protasiewicz has said her opponents are cherry-picking cases in her record, and defense attorneys note some defendants are in jail for as long as two years awaiting trial or a plea deal.
    — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Defense attorneys have long said there was never a plan to attack the Capitol and prosecutors' case was largely built on online messages cherry-picked out of context.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • The drafters based this assertion partially on a tendentious and cherry-picked misreading of a study of Oregon Medicaid enrollees published in 2012.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But somebody cherry-picked a few passages from an 800-page training manual and now Ivey is more than willing to junk the state’s one educational success story to appease the anti-woke crusaders.
    — Kyle Whitmire | , al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Rover proffers a classic gig-economy arrangement, allowing workers to fine-tune their rates and cherry-pick their neighborhoods and clientele.
    — Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Ares’s cherry-picking results in a secure, profitable portfolio.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But cherry-picking one project to exempt from the process everybody else is required to go through is contrary to the spirit of permitting reform, unfairly targets Virginians whose land would be taken away and could open the door to corruption.
    — WSJ, 2 June 2023
  • Performers featured in the on-stage musical sequence were cherry-picked from the University of Colorado’s theater department.
    — Gordon Cox, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Hot takes on social media compound the problem, as one person interprets a study one way, while another person cherry-picks information for a partisan claim.
    — WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Facebook pushed back on those allegations, arguing that the reporting and documents had been cherry-picked and that positive conclusions found in the documents had been ignored.
    — Jacob Ward, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In response, Israel argued that these quotes were cherry-picked, articulated in a moment of trauma and anger in Israeli society, and did not reflect the official policy of the country’s war cabinet.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Asked for comment, a Fox News spokesperson pointed to the network’s previous public statements accusing Dominion of cherry-picking quotes to generate headlines.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023

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