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- verb Alternative spelling of
cherry pick .
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Examples
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"It would appear that CityLink is trying to damage indigenous bus operators by running illegal services that enable them to 'cherrypick' our customers."
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But I've never lost my anger at the so-called insurance carriers that, as former Senate Majority Leader and surgeon Bill Frist recently pointed out, are allowed to "cherrypick" their customers by rejecting higher risk applicants.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local <B>By Nick DiGiacomo</B><br><I>The Denver Post</I> 2009
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That "cherrypick" stuff folks like to say boggles my mind ..
East Side Boxing 2009
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Strom – As usual, you cherrypick your information, but you forgot to include this:
Think Progress » Number of millionaires in America increased 16 percent in 2009. 2010
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And then Eugene Robinson, another columnist for the Post, was interviewed on the Rachel Maddow Show on April 8, 2009, and had this to say about his colleague: What George Will did was cherrypick a sentence in a report, be very persnickety in the way he parsed his sentences, and end up making it sound as if the report had said the exact opposite of what it actually said.
Will or Will Not 2009
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Now, maybe insurers will try to cherrypick the healthy.
Health Insurance Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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People love to cherrypick information to form their own conclusions.
What do we want from climate informatics tools? | Serendipity 2009
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Why is it that CNN has to cherrypick and comment on an interview before it is presented to viewers?
State of the Union: Powell 'concerned' about Obama's agenda 2009
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There might be some interesting stories to write about a trove of 25,000+ e-mails -- though, in reality, most of them would say something like "lots of people have lots of different opinions" -- but their approach has been to cherrypick the few snippets that support the most sensational headlines, and then attribute them to "Journolist," or "journalists," as opposed to whichever specific person is being quoted.
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We'll cherrypick the best ones and let Snoop work his magic on them.
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