pick holes in
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“Have it pick holes in the strategy you currently have,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
If given the opportunity, they will surely try to pick holes in Holmes’s testimony.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2019
And seeing that they did indeed give us the best show on television, it’s probably petty to pick holes in their strangely somnolent commentary.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2019
The 46-year-old pleaded not guilty to the charges and his lawyers sought to pick holes in the evidence during the trial.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 28, 2017
It would be very easy to pick holes in this very loose theory.
From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Sir Leslie Stephen
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