pick and choose
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"We're in this really great place, that I hope will continue, where we're getting to pick and choose what we want to do - rather than it being forced or an expectation," she added.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
Instead, the move toward around-the-clock trading would give them greater opportunity to pick and choose when they would want to be online.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025
It’s also interesting when you’re sequencing for vinyl, because you don’t have unlimited time so you kind of got to pick and choose, and that kind of forces you to just choose the best.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025
Then, workers could largely pick and choose between competing offers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
Still, he thought, this was no time to pick and choose.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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