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• Rain chances Wednesday begin to pick up after the lunch hour giving the day an overall 40% chance of rain.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2022
• That deal including a $10-million club option, which the Cubs will pick up after the Reds dropped him.
  — Phil Rogers, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• Rain will pick up after 7 a.m. in the beaches of Sonoma, Marin and San Mateo counties while winds steadily blow stronger over the course of the morning.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
• North Texas leaders have a humble request: Please pick up after your pups.
  — Dallas News, 3 May 2022
• The campaign has been a quiet one thus far, but is expected to pick up after Labor Day.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 30 July 2021
• Sunshine will burn off most of the fog after 9 a.m. Another round of cold, northwest winds will be looking to pick up after 11 a.m.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
• Delays and cancellations at Heathrow started to pick up after 2 p.m., and the lines for check-in, bag drop and security grew longer and longer.
  — Sara Ruberg, WSJ, 13 July 2022
• Exchanges’ revenues are reliant on retail trading, which has been slow to pick up after a wave of failures and scandals ripped through the sector last year.
  — Muyao Shen, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
• The National Weather Service predicts rain will pick up after 10 a.m., with somewhere between a quarter-inch and three-quarters of an inch falling over the course of the day.
  — oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2020
• Also, remember to pick up after yourself or your family when finishing a trip to the beach.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 1 July 2023
• Season 21 will pick up after a massive cliffhanger that left audiences shocked.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
• Prices of major commodities have been on an upward trend since last year, when global demand started to pick up after the pandemic shock.
  — Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• The discussions come as European banking M&A is starting to pick up after years with few if any transactions.
  — Sonia Sirletti, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Executives are optimistic these kinds of trips will pick up after Labor Day, but the pace of the recovery remains an open question.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 15 July 2021
• Businesses were just starting to see summer tourism pick up after Memorial Day.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• In Denver on Friday, winds should pick up after 11 a.m. creating areas of blowing dirt and dust, according to the weather service.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2020
• Owners must remain with their dogs and pick up after them; there's also a 45-minute time limit and current license and vaccination tags are required.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 28 Jan. 2023
• Homeowners know all too well how important a powerful vacuum cleaner is to pick up after messy kids and shedding pets.
  — Lily Gray, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2022
• Something similar happened in 2013, when seismicity appeared to drop only to pick up after a year.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
• For some lifelong athletes, the decline in running performance is due to an accumulation of injuries, even the small ones that many runners pick up after a lifetime of pounding the pavement.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• This fourth Maisel season is currently filming around New York City, which will pick up after our flawed heroine is fired from her international tour opener gig.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• Rain and wind pick up after sunset Saturday in Puerto Rico, with the worst conditions lasting through Sunday afternoon.
  — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2022
• Both laws work to pick up after a pandemic-era federal program that provided universal free lunches in schools across the nation ended earlier this year.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
• For now, the recent run of acquisitions is helping extend a nascent recovery in global dealmaking, with activity starting to pick up after volumes plunged the second quarter.
  — Nabila Ahmed, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2020
• New Jersey's newest Covid-19 wave began to pick up after Murphy, under pressure from a pandemic-weary public and the business community, began loosening restrictions to slow the spread of the virus just as the vaccine rollout got underway this year.
  — NBC News, 1 Apr. 2021
• Most feces in the river, for example, can be attributed to careless dog owners who don’t pick up after their pets, according to information from the Department of Environmental Quality — and people litter regardless of their housing status.
  — Taylor Stevens, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024