picked over
IdiomsExample Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Most hackers wouldn’t have even looked at Provos’s old code, assuming that it had been picked over for bugs, Provos said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
O'Reilly was picked over Spence and Lewis-Skelly but did not look out of place alongside Ezri Konsa, John Stones and Reece James in defence.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
There isn’t much about this case that hasn’t been picked over or dramatically reenacted through third parties.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
In the eight years since Miller rose to fame and became an outsized antagonist on the American left, his Santa Monica villain origin story has been exhaustively documented, picked over and reanalyzed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025
Stunned silence filled the car as Lexie and Brian both picked over what she’d said.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
