pickers

noun

plural of picker
as in voters
someone with the right or responsibility for making a selection a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

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Recent Examples of pickers They are provided with tools, including a safety vest, gloves, bags, buckets, and trash pickers. — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 30 July 2026 So if people are in the area, there might be a plethora of blueberry pickers and people out grouse hunting. — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 29 July 2026 The risks are especially acute for temporary workers, subcontractors and waste pickers, the study said. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 June 2026 My aunt and uncle, who live in Santa Fe—home to the International Folk Art Market, one of the largest such festivals in the world (the next one is July 9-12)—are devoted flea-market pickers and collectors of antique oddities. — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 15 May 2026 There would be the pickers going through drawers looking for a good deal, and the antique-loving Southerners hoping to find a set of Chantilly silver to complete their 12-person table. — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 15 May 2026 There is an enchanting atmosphere given by the feeling of the end of summer and the hard work of the grape pickers. — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2026 Strawberries also highlights the various challenges that foreign fruit pickers have encountered in real-life trials, from language barriers and religious and cultural differences to the fear of being stigmatized back home. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026 Plastic waste is largely collected as part of the dry-waste stream under municipal systems, with significant contribution by informal waste pickers and scrap dealers. — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
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  1. voters
  2. selectors
  3. choosers
Noun
  • In Alabama, some voters decided several House races following the Supreme Court decision that limited portions of the Voting Rights Act and led several states in the South to take part in mid-decade redistricting.
    — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Election officials warn that making changes so close to the election could affect whether eligible voters receive ballots and create errors that cannot be undone.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of voters
Noun
  • In some ultra-competitive genres—Northern soul, hip-hop, jungle—selectors have been known to cover up the center stickers of their records, or leave white labels unmarked, to throw boothsnooping DJs off the scent.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026
  • The Edsel also introduced the Teletouch transmission, which placed push-button gear selectors in the center of the steering wheel.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Definition of selectors
Noun
  • As the commentators in a recent American updating of the traditional Passover Haggadah point out, people who identify as Jews have a much easier time these days thinking of themselves as choosers than as chosen.
    — Sophia Rosenfeld September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Definition of choosers

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