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How to use the word u-pick in a Sentence?

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You know, you play by the rules, that’s fine, but you pick your trial court judge.

– Elena Kagan

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1 year ago

The former president started early and we want the governor to be competitive and we’re building with that purpose so he’s not starting from a traditional day one, we have organizations of this movement put together in the early states and they can pick up and lead from there.

– Ken Cuccinelli

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1 year ago

The Biden administration has set themselves a good, strong to do list of things that will help with environmental justice and climate protection, they’re moving kind of slow, though. So we’d like them to pick up the pace.

– Katherine Pruitt

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1 year ago

I’m not sure who the Republicans will put forward as their nominees, but normally the folks who get to determine who the nominee is are the voters in those individual states in the primaries, if we look at what happened last cycle, those primary voters tended to pick highly flawed candidates, and I expect that will happen again.

– Gary Peters

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1 year ago

She was a very competitive candidate. I think I trust the Republican voters in Arizona to pick the nominee, i don’t think Washington should be stepping in to do it.

– Marco Rubio

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1 year ago

I believe the citizens of the state ought to pick.

– Rick Scott

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1 year ago

Maybe someone’s not going to pick up a book about Egypt or Namibia or Tunisia. But maybe they would be intrigued by my dating story, and if they happen to learn these other things about this country during that dating story, then I consider that a huge bonus, i realize Egypt maybe is n’t on everybody’s bucket list, maybe Morocco is n’t, even Namibia. When I write about these places, I hope it builds a curiosity … I hope the stories make people laugh, dream and cross oceans to meet interesting people all over.

– Courtesy Loni James

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1 year ago

You go, you find it, take a stick, tap it to determine the size, and then you dig it up, and then you pick it up gently and take it out.

– Bex Wright/CNN

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1 year ago

These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it.

– Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter

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1 year ago

The government, on average, makes millions of payments each day, and our systems are built to pay all of our bills on time and not to pick and choose which bills to pay, it would be an exceptionally risky, untested and radical departure from normal payment practices of agencies across the federal government.

– Janet Yellen

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1 year ago

A number of animals are being abandoned that have serious medical issues, the only thing we can guess is that people just ca n’t afford those expenses, and they’re hoping by dropping off [ their pets ] at our facility that we’re going to be able to pick up the slack. And we do as best we can, but it’s really putting a strain on our resources.

– Joe Labriola

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1 year ago

We developed a brain-computer interface device that is a kind of an EEG (electroencephalogram) cap for organoids, which we presented in an article published last August, it is a flexible shell that is densely covered with tiny electrodes that can both pick up signals from the organoid, and transmit signals to it.

– Thomas Hartung

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1 year ago

If a consumer has the opportunity to purchase locally, then they definitely should. That’s especially true for mom-and-pop neighborhood operations and the high-street retailer downtown, if something is available within walking, biking or metro distance, go to the store and pick it up. That simple change can solve so many environmental issues.

– John Pabon

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1 year ago

There are people that are highly sensitive to chemicals and can feel it before necessarily a monitor can pick it up, there’s not a great diagnostic pathway for chemical sensitivities. A lot of it is based off clinical symptoms, including rashes.

– Kari Nadeau

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1 year ago

The chemical smell was so strong that it made me nauseous, i just wanted to quickly pick up what I needed and leave. I only took a few pieces of clothes because even the clothes smelled like chemicals, and I ’m afraid to put them on my kids.

– Amanda Greathouse

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1 year ago

I just wanted to quickly pick up what I needed and leave. I only took a few pieces of clothes because even the clothes smelled like chemicals, and I ’m afraid to put them on my kids.

– Amanda Greathouse

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1 year ago

But it’s when it starts to spread from one mammal to the next mammal to the next mammal, it’s in those environments where we think it’s most likely that it will pick up these changes that allow us to switch hosts, and that’s why we get concerned.

– Richard Webby

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1 year ago

Investors reckoned that the pick of Ueda-san is a signal to pave the way [for BOJ] to exit the ultra-loose policy, [The] chance for ending the yield curve control policy and negative interest rate[s] has been increasing.

– Ken Cheung

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1 year ago

We filled eight big black garbage bags. They were so heavy we could barely pick them up, they had to have weighed at least a hundred pounds each.

– Nick Castro

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1 year ago

If you’re a Black artist in America, by default you’re an activist. I have an obligation to make sure if they can’t find images that portray them as human beings, I will make sure to do it myself, i write my books so when Black children pick them up they don’t want to put it down because they see themselves. It’s a mirror. They see it and think ‘This is who I am, I’m someone with astronomical goals. I love myself. I love my skin. I love my hair. I love my family. I love my neighborhood.’.

– Derrick Barnes

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1 year ago

I did pick the Chiefs and I did pick the Eagles both to go to the Super Bowl, so I got a good thing going there.

– Getty Images

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1 year ago

We are doing a lot of services for the Americans. They should be grateful to us rather than come up with this language, american sanctions are American sanctions. They are not UN sanctions and countries can pick and choose. We have dealings with 190 different countries, and Russia is one of them.

– Abdulkhaleq Abdulla

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1 year ago

American sanctions are American sanctions. They are not UN sanctions and countries can pick and choose. We have dealings with 190 different countries, and Russia is one of them.

– Abdulkhaleq Abdulla

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1 year ago

They’re very low signature and low-to-zero emission, so hard to pick up with traditional situational awareness or surveillance technology.

– Blake Herzinger

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1 year ago

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