pick and choose
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With the prisons in crisis, and no obvious way just to pick and choose who is released early, how can he do it?
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“You can kind of see everybody’s profile, so it’s like scrolling on Instagram and you can pick and choose who you want to talk to,” she says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
I’d pick and choose too many complex dishes and opt for recipes I’d never made before.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
“So you’ll pick and choose which court orders you’ll obey?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
“You pick and choose who gets rescued and who doesn’t?”
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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