pick over

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pick over
Verb
  • Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.
    Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 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, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Photos of the 10,000-apartment development, released by state news agency KCNA after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un inspected the site Saturday, show residential skyscrapers spilling out from a wide boulevard in the new district, Hwasong.
    Oscar Holland, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Weeks later, the Army Corps of Engineers had tagged the trees for removal, but certified arborists had inspected them as a second opinion and deemed them healthy.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • His 2020 documentary Vivos examined the shocking disappearance of a group of students who were seized in Mexico’s Guerrero state.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Its methodologies compel leaders and their teams to rigorously examine their most fundamental beliefs, anticipate disruptive scenarios, and prepare adaptive responses.
    Bryce Hoffman, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Reporter Rosemary Coulter and retired Mountie Bill Avery teamed up once again to investigate a train robbery, while Governor Lucas Bouchard and Mayor Lee Coulter quite literally found common ground.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 23 Mar. 2025
  • In the show’s second episode, Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe (Ashley Walters) is at a secondary school to investigate why 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), the central character, allegedly killed his classmate Katie.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Whether painted, re-printed, or scanned, there are endless ways to take the words and handwriting on the card and turn them into something long lasting.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025
  • And that has meant not only scanning where the Heat sit in the East, but the league overall.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 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 2 Apr. 2025.

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