Words similar to picked

Example sentences for: picked

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I have no idea who wrote this version, which I picked up from other students as an undergraduate at Rice University.
Both USAT and the LAT have front-page pieces reporting that the NBA has picked two female referees to work the upcoming regular season, a decision believed to be a first for men's top-level professional sports.
) nominated for the National Book Award, and had her first novel ( Breath, Eyes, Memory ) picked for Oprah's book club.
This week's New Yorker is light on ads (Chatterbox picked it up and for a second thought it was the New Republic !) but thick with highbrow Clintophilic rationalization in the form of an essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Two years ago, the Chandler family picked him to run their $3.