Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not picked; not chosen or selected.
- Unplucked; ungathered, as fruit.
- Not picked or opened with an instrument, as a lock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Picked out; picked open.
- adjective Not picked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unpick .
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Examples
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And speaking of bleak years, last night's Panorama – Dale Farm: the Big Eviction BBC1 unpicked the knotty history of the eviction of 81 Irish traveller families from the encampment that they have called home for the past 10 years.
TV review: The Slap; The Future State of Welfare; Panorama – Dale Farm: the Big Eviction 2011
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All this will need to be unpicked at greater length by the inquiries which have been announced.
News International crisis: New questions and little contrition | Editorial 2011
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A few of my friends went for the 2-inch-long-super-wide-tie look, and even unpicked the tie's seams and spread the edges out to get it even wider.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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The Labour government legislated to rectify this position in 1965, and again in the mid-1970s, but this was unpicked under Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s.
Sid Staden obituary 2011
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Max, Jackie and I quickly grabbed buckets and sécateurs* and headed out to the unpicked rangées.
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Carnes ended up with less than 100 workers and fell two weeks behind, with bits and pieces of the fields unpicked.
The Smoot-Hawley Fence, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As cases of crops that have gone unpicked following crack-downs on illegal farm workers vividly illustrate, America has a shortage of legal labor.
Immigration 2010
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The bestselling author of The Tipping Point unpicked this notion with typical chutzpah, moving quickly from emotive and carefully selected individual case studies to sweeping universal principles.
Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell Tim Adams 2010
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Scrumping activists even have their own organization called Abundance, which is composed of volunteers throughout the U.K. who are dedicated to harvesting unpicked fruit.
Urban Scrumpers Are Picking the Forbidden Fruit Sara Calian 2010
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Max, Jackie and I quickly grabbed buckets and sécateurs* and headed out to the unpicked rangées.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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