picking out

verb

present participle of pick out
as in looking (at)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picking out
  1. making out
  2. identifying
  3. picking up
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  • Not the family stuff, like Natalie’s spontaneous nipple piercing after making out with Cady’s maybe-daughter, Nevaeh (Malia Pyles), who later murders her own mother after kissing her, for way too long, on the mouth.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • The finale concluded on an uncomfortable cliffhanger between Benny and Carmen, as the former walked in on the latter making out with his crush Miles (Rish Shah), leading to an unexpected confrontation in which Benny is accidentally outed to his sister.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 6 June 2026
Definition of making out
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  • The program has also introduced Earthster, a modeling platform that helps companies evaluate the environmental impact of semiconductor manufacturing by identifying energy use, material consumption, and carbon-emission hotspots across their products.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
  • The unknown profile, prosecutors said, did not contain enough identifying information to be submitted to CODIS, the national DNA database.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of identifying
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  • Later in the second half, Olise teed up Ousmane Dembele with prodded outside-of-the-boot passes after picking up loose balls in front of the defence.
    — Thom Harris, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Especially at Louisville, just making that big jump, picking up full court, just being a dog, being scrappy, getting through screens, just everything like that.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
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