Words similar to picking

Example sentences for: picking

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The idea is, says the paper, picking up support from mainstream civil rights organizations and politicians.
People in phone marts who walk around picking up display phones and listening for dial tones even when they know the phones are not connected.
Since Volcker was committed to taming inflation even at the cost of putting the economy into a recession just before the 1980 election, Carter was committing honorable suicide by picking him.
Yes, I'd rather have Al Gore picking Supreme Court justices than George Bush, and I'd rather have Bill Bradley than either of them ... but Bush doesn't scare me.
The magazine cops out of picking America's best university: Harvard, Princeton, and Yale tie for No.