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pick holes in

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  1. see under pick apart.


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“Have it pick holes in the strategy you currently have,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

A Ioan Lloyd penalty halted the comeback, as Lousi once again began to pick holes in the defence.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025

Grant: If you’re going to pick holes in the finale, let me ask you this: Did you think the bridge was high enough?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2021

If given the opportunity, they will surely try to pick holes in Holmes’s testimony.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2019

"To pick holes in a man of that quality only seems to accentuate one's own littleness."

From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver

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