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pick at

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pick at, pluck at, pull atverb

    pluck or pull at with the fingers

    "She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse"

  2. pick at, peck at, peckverb

    eat like a bird

    "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"

  3. disparage, belittle, pick atverb

    express a negative opinion of

    "She disparaged her student's efforts"

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  1. pick at

    To pick at refers to several actions, which include: 1. To repeatedly touch or poke something, often in a nervous or absent-minded way. 2. To eat only small amounts of food in a disinterested or unenthusiastic manner. 3. To continuously criticize or find fault with someone or something in a petty or nagging way. 4. To remove small pieces from something by pulling at them or scraping them away.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pick at in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pick at in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of pick at in a Sentence

  1. Christopher Wylie:

    Cambridge Analytica will try to pick at whatever mental weakness or vulnerability that we think you have and try to warp your perception of what's real around you, if you are looking to create an information weapon, the battle space you operate in is social media. That is where the fight happens.

  2. Lori Freeman:

    It might seem like a minor crack, but people will dig at that crack and pick at it to indicate those changes weren't based in real science or data because it was not published, i do watch Fox News, just because Fox News's instructional to see what they're thinking, and I see Fox News all the time --' The CDC changed this and they haven't published the data yet.'.


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  • వద్ద ఎంచుకోండిTelugu

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