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cherry-pick·ing

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cherry-picking in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cherry-picking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of cherry-picking in a Sentence

  1. Chuck Schumer:

    Every day, Republican obstruction of Kavanaugh's record gets worse and worse, not only is a massively conflicted Republican lawyer, who previously worked for Judge Judge Kavanaugh, cherry-picking what documents Senate Judiciary Committee can see, he is now telling the Committee what the rest of the Senate and the American public can see -- and Republicans are playing along.

  2. Lee Zeldin:

    When Adam Schiff is cherry-picking leaks, when hes withholding facts, when hes outright lying -- let the American ppl know that.

  3. Tim Cook:

    Someone is cherry-picking the candidates for voters, and that's un-American.

  4. Andrew Patrick:

    The gun lobby is deceptively cherry picking this statistic to imply that overall gun deaths are down. In fact, the opposite is true.

  5. Michael Mukasey:

    It's even worse than that, they were cherry-picking, throwing away the cherries and they printed the pits.


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