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How to use the word selecting in a Sentence?

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There’s one hypothesis from a prominent mycologist who suggests that the reason the body’s temperature is 98.6 is because that is the temperature where fungi can’t grow that well. And so, now we’re seeing Candida auris and some of the other new microbes that have come up that really grow quite well – even at temperatures of 98.6 in the human body. And so I think climate change, really selecting for these organisms to adapt to a warmer climate, is going to increase the odds that there’s infection in humans.

Scott Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We also know that we are still unconsciously selecting these characteristics in dogs.

Madisen Omstead

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ukrainians are being very, very savvy about how they attack the Russian army, the vehicles they've destroyed and the people that they've killed. You see the number of colonels killed, it has been significant. They're really creating chaos and confusion inside the Russian army, which means the numbers are even more important than they seem because of the specific targets the Ukrainians have been selecting.

Michael Ryan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The overriding intent of this bill is to provide curricular transparency, as well as to empower parents by returning them the opportunity to participate in the curriculum process of selecting and approving instructional materials to be used by teachers in the classroom.

Tony Cook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So during this process, legislators did not use any racial data when drawing districts, and we're now being sued for not considering race, the only constant here is Democratic litigants selecting arguments, no matter how contradictory, to try to convince a court to order maps that favor Democratic candidates.

Ralph Hise

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This turn of events, we have to get to work and we have to get to work quickly selecting our team.

John Vanbiesbrouck

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are so excited to welcome Lisa to the Bucks family and to bring such a talented play-by-play announcer to our broadcast team, lisa's extensive television broadcasting background, including her play-by-play work for high-level NCAA basketball on several national networks, makes her the perfect choice to take on this major role. While we appreciate the significance of selecting Lisa, and we celebrate this historic moment, Lisa earned this position based on her extraordinary skills and experience. We look forward to Lisa becoming the voice of Milwaukee Bucks.

Peter Feigin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The index is primarily there to help aid in selecting and using calories consumed on a daily basis to tweak a minimum of habits and make the minimum of change to obtain a maximum benefit for health and the environment from our food experience.

Olivier Jolliet

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He was able to write this moving and beautiful book by selecting characters painstakingly, one at a time, using eye movement, imagine what he could have done with Frank's [ Willett ] handwriting interface.

Jaimie Henderson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The SEC has failed the American people by repeatedly selecting Wall Street defense lawyers as Directors of Enforcement, they come to the SEC with needless and unhelpful baggage, including crippling conflicts of interest regarding current and past clients as well as a mindset...ill-suited to being an aggressive enforcer.

Dennis Kelleher

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

While selecting the Olympic team for Tokyo is a critical goal for the trials, it is important to note that the experience gained at trials by some of the lower-seeded athletes has historically provided a great experience for future Olympic trials (and games), which fueled our desire to host two events.

Mike Unger

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I've done cases with anonymous juries, but we, as his lawyers, should certainly know where the jurors are from, what they do for a living. The idea of jury selection is that you have some idea of whom you're selecting.

Steve Greenberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The key for this mission will be identifying samples so compelling that we can't afford to leave them, so it is imperative that missions have to go get them, we are selecting these for humanity, so we need to make sure they are the most exciting.

Benjamin Weiss

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have talked recently with a number of European service providers who are now selecting their vendors for 5G and the message is very clear : They would like to be able to select any vendor that is currently in the market.

Dario Talmesio

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Firmness, shape, color, texture of skin, and aroma are keys to selecting the freshest produce, for example, a fresh broccoli would be firm, closed, dark-green florets, and tender stalks. Yellowing green-colored heads of broccoli are over mature.

Shuresh Ghimire

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were quite surprised by this as we thought things would be getting better, it could be unconscious bias where people don't even realize they're selecting males, it could be passive in that males are easier to catch or easier to see in the wild, or maybe conservation concerns leading collectors to avoid females.

Natalie Cooper

Found on CNN
4 years ago

After seeing my friend go through such violence, I realized that I have to be more careful in selecting my dating partner, but it's not easy to find trustworthy men, it made me wonder whether dating was that important in my life if I have to spend so much time looking for men I could trust.

Lee Ji-su

Found on CNN
4 years ago

President Obama has long said that selecting Joe Biden as Joe Biden running mate in 2008 was one of the best decisions he ever made, president Obama relied on the Vice President's knowledge, insight, and judgment throughout both campaigns and the entire presidency. The two forged a special bond over the last 10 years and remain close today.

Katie Hill

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our objective when selecting entrepreneurs is to find ideas that can become a business worth over £ 50 million within ten years. We are looking for impact and scale, ideas that can help millions of people.

Joe Ludlow

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This decision will ensure that delegates elected by voters in primaries and caucuses will have the primary role in selecting the Democratic Party's nominee at the 2020 convention, this is a major step forward in making Democratic Party more open and transparent, and I applaud their action.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
5 years ago

CBS is catching up to the ‘Today Show’ because CBS made the daring gamble to be a little different, selecting an old-timer like Charlie Rose and doing long-format interviews aren’t what typically works in morning TV. But CBS has shown that not only is it OK to be different, it pays to be different if you want to distinguish yourself in a marketplace where most network news shows all look and sound alike.

Charlie Rose

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We have been and will remain relatively risk-averse while this correction period runs its course, brexit may extend that period of risk aversion, but we will continue to follow our investment process of selecting quality companies and assets with healthy upside potential growth.

Alan Gayle

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It is possible that working-class therapy seekers would receive more positive responses from social workers, who may be more willing to work with disadvantaged populations, or from group practices, where there could be more social pressure to be less discriminatory when selecting clientele.

Heather Kugelmass

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have been able to maximize the three training camps in Rio, the last two camps our rivals weren't there because they were still selecting their teams.

John Anderson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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