Example Sentences

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Trump has been selecting his top team since winning the US election last week.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024

The economics prize was established by the Bank of Sweden in 1968; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has been selecting the winners since 1969.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

Over about 500 million years—since the origins of multicellularity—evolution has been selecting for organisms that can keep cancer at bay.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2021

To maximize shelf space, Target has been selecting smaller package sizes and fewer brands for many of the same items offered in bulk at its larger stores.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2016

If the selection is carefully made, the grower will soon rejoice, because he will observe a larger and a larger number of plants approaching the type of plant he has been selecting for.

From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville)