choose
verb (used with object)
to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference.
chooser
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a word derived from
choose.
Example Sentences
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Then the chooser will guide the company through the process of buying and installing the tech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
It is a match made in modern college football hell, a renowned learning institution cast as beggars, a misguided football player portrayed as the chooser, and, yeah, the whole thing stinks to Rocky Top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
“In respect to these songbirds we have in our backyard, the female is the chooser and the male is the displayed,” said ornithologist Bruce Beehler, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022
How wondrous it must be to consider one’s self as entitled to being both beggar and chooser.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2017
‘And were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil doing.’
From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Augustine Birrell
