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Recent Examples of pickersThe supply chain involves numerous players from farmers to pickers, brokers, transporters, exporters and market traders all moving the leaves daily, making the plant one of Kenya’s more significant horticultural products.—Joseph Maina, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026 Student groups expressed outrage because, at the time, a nationwide Taco Bell boycott was underway to pressure the restaurant to improve the wages and working conditions of its tomato pickers.—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2026 Two years later, the UFW was able to secure contracts for more than 10,000 grape pickers.—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026 Cutting a dash through the gaggle of bargain hunters, professional pickers, and the just-plain-curious, Carlotta Champagne and Haley Warr make a beeline for the sign-in sheet and slap our names down.—Zoey Goto, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2026 The fruit is harvested using pickers, basket-like cages with clawed tips to catch the fruit, on extendable poles.—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026 That creates healthy breadth readings and pleases professional stock pickers, though in the past has not been associated with strong index advances.—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026 Ten members ended 2025 with stock market returns far exceeding the S&P, the Dow, the Nasdaq or what legendary stock pickers like Warren Buffet achieve.—Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026 Products like tractors, sprayers, irrigation equipment, mechanical pickers and fertilizer will also be exempt from the tax with the new cards.—Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 6 Jan. 2026
As the commentators in a recent American updating of the traditional Passover Haggadah point out, people who identify as Jews have a much easier time these days thinking of themselves as choosers than as chosen.
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