selective
Origin of selective
1Other words for selective
Other words from selective
- se·lec·tive·ly, adverb
- se·lec·tive·ness, noun
- non·se·lec·tive, adjective
- un·se·lec·tive, adjective
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How to use selective in a sentence
The B Impact Assessment is designed by an independent committee of international experts and focused on facts and data, not PR and selective self-reporting.
Freeman is crushing pitches he swings at in part because he’s been more selective.
Freddie Freeman Took The Leap. Now The Braves Are One Game Away From Doing The Same. | Travis Sawchik | October 16, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightWhile many private and campaign polls use sound methodologies, results are often released in a selective manner and have historically exhibited a sizable bias toward the sponsor’s party.
How The Washington Post’s polling average works | Scott Clement, Emily Guskin | October 16, 2020 | Washington PostI hope that highly selective and remote festivals like Sundance, Telluride, and Cannes can use these kinds of public access screenings even after the pandemic fades.
Vox Media helped publishers and advertisers achieve scale and safetyPrivacy and brand safety fears have been making advertisers far more selective in their investments.
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“Kasich wields his ax much less selectively than do most of his party colleagues,” the New York Times Magazine reported in 1998.
John Kasich: The GOP’s Hobbled 2016 Dark Horse | W. James Antle III | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe same massive evidence trove body cameras create can, if used selectively, humiliate and indict average citizens.
Your Arrest Video Is Going Online. Who Will See It? | Jacob Siegel | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI live alone with my children, dating selectively but hopefully.
I Was Pregnant When He Hit Me. Here's #WhyIStayed. | Anonymous | September 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis family members came to nickname him “The Nut” as a child because, they say, he was “selectively crazy.”
‘No No,’ a Documentary on MLB Pitcher Dock Ellis, Who Pitched a No-Hitter While Tripping on Acid | Marlow Stern | February 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAll grains produce lectins, which selectively bind to unique proteins on the surfaces of bacteria, fungi, and insects.
Wheat Threatens All Humans, New Research Shows | David Perlmutter, MD | December 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOn account of this difference in taboos, taboos act selectively, and thus affect the course of civilization.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerOf course this acts selectively to call out what is most advantageous and most valued in the society.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerFor religious purposes the Zui appear to have selectively produced a great variety of colours in the ears of corn.
He proceeds selectively, taking the relation of stimulus and response as his clue.
Creative Intelligence | John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. KallenThere were frequencies of other values, which would be selectively absorbed by this material and that.
The Aliens | Murray Leinster
British Dictionary definitions for selective
/ (sɪˈlɛktɪv) /
of or characterized by selection
tending to choose carefully or characterized by careful choice
electronics occurring at, operating at, or capable of separating out a particular frequency or band of frequencies
Derived forms of selective
- selectively, adverb
- selectiveness, noun
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