How to Use cherry-pick in a Sentence

cherry-pick

verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The country’s largest private psychiatric hospital operator cherry-picks patients whose insurance will pay more, its finance chief said on an earnings call Wednesday.
  — Tara Bannow, STAT, 26 July 2023
• The network maintains that Dominion cherry-picked from private messages and broadcast transcripts and depositions of various Fox players, while brushing past other comments and context more favorable to Fox.
  — David Bauder, ajc, 18 Apr. 2023
• All cherry-pick evidence — some factual, some highly distorted — to push misleading narratives.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
• Defense attorneys accuse prosecutors of cherry-picking statements from tens of thousands of Proud Boys communications to paint a damning picture, ignoring evidence of disagreement and confusion in the group over any specific plan for Jan. 6.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• Avoid cherry-picking information that confirms your original thesis while ignoring contradictory signals.
  — Robert Daugherty, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024