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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cherrypick .
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Examples
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The District's deputy chancellor for special education, Richard Nyankori, disagreed with the team's central findings, asserting that it had 'cherrypicked' cases from city files to prove some of its points.
DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 6, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2011
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Many big aerospace companies had big operations there, but they were cherrypicked by California and Texas over the years.
Free Trade in Tech Labor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The book's brevity (171 pages of text) and broad purview (including fights over issues from pesticide regulation to smog in Los Angeles and elsewhere) leave the authors open to the charge that they have cherrypicked the record to bolster their case.
In "The Polluters," Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter call out chemical industry. Seth Shulman 2010
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Everybody has their own set of cherrypicked stats they can use to “prove” their ideology is the best one, but two months ago the country decided it wanted a Dem President and a Dem legislature.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama to Krugman: Show Me The Workable Ideas! 2009
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The book's brevity (171 pages of text) and broad purview (including fights over issues from pesticide regulation to smog in Los Angeles and elsewhere) leave the authors open to the charge that they have cherrypicked the record to bolster their case.
In "The Polluters," Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter call out chemical industry. Seth Shulman 2010
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It might be hateful and might (according to you) increase the likelihood that some people who read it will take violent action, but an analogous list of cherrypicked facts designed to make an individual look bad would not qualify as defamation.
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Everybody has their own set of cherrypicked stats they can use to “prove” their ideology is the best one, but two months ago the country decided it wanted a Dem President and a Dem legislature.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama to Krugman: Show Me The Workable Ideas! 2009
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CNN's speculations, exaggerations and carefully cherrypicked quotes give rise to haetful, uniformed rantings by the same people day in and day out who I suspect are posting under a number of different names.
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If some racist takes a bunch of cherrypicked facts about a given ethnic group like blacks or Jews, like a list of prominent criminals who were members of that group, should this be illegal even if all the statements are individually correct?
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What even the Daily Caller's cherrypicked articles have shown is that Journolist was a long-running argument between people who had different views and different interests.
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