curated

[ kyoor-ey-tid ]

adjective

1. (of a museum, gallery, or similar collection) provided with expert oversight and direction by a professional curator:

   Richards focused on the use of light to bring to life the internal gallery spaces and their curated exhibits for the visitor.

2. carefully gathered, sifted, chosen, and organized:

   The store carries cookware and appliances as well as a superbly curated selection of furniture, lamps, rugs, and other decor.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of curate ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·cur·at·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of curated¹

curate ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

What to do with data you’ve saved for personal useWhether you’re saving tagged photos of yourself from Facebook or building an impressively curated library of memes, the main thing to consider is redundancy.

From Popular-Science

Twitter will also be streaming the ceremony via its US Elections Hub, where it says it will share curated Moments, Lists and accounts to follow as well.

From TechCrunch

Except that it has learned to recognize images not from labeled examples in curated data sets, as most existing models do, but from images and their captions taken from the internet.

From MIT Technology Review

Most Saturdays we post a curated collection of our favorite articles from the week.

From Singularity Hub 

We commissioned five cartographers to create maps of Massachusetts using a curated data set provided by the map center.

From MIT Technology Review

Here is our carefully curated list of the top cities to visit in 2015.

From The Daily Beast

His colleague at the British Museum, Dr. Jeremy Hill, who curated the 100 Objects book, opted for the word processor.

From The Daily Beast

She wants to let the carefully curated pictures do the talking.

From The Daily Beast

Jennifer Lawrence has long been praised for her authenticity in a Hollywood elite full of all-too-carefully curated personalities.

From The Daily Beast

Campbell describes the books on his shelves as a “curated” collection.

From The Daily Beast