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single out

Idioms  

  1. Choose or distinguish from others, as in We singled him out from all the other applicants. This idiom was first recorded in 1629.

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Speculators were also singled out as a contributing factor.

From Barron's

The program singles out a list of industrial facilities for disfavor, setting a low threshold for the permitting requirements to kick in.

From The Wall Street Journal

Still, there are reasons to suspect the Pentagon is singling out Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal

AI-powered machine vision can now quickly find vast numbers of targets—with the ability to single out specific models of aircraft or vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal

Beverly Hills officials insist the city did not unfairly single out Brown and stressed the incident was a code-enforcement matter, not one involving policing issues.

From Los Angeles Times

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