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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are picked out" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to items or individuals that have been selected or chosen from a group.
Example: "The best candidates for the job are picked out from a large pool of applicants."
Alternatives: "are selected" or "are chosen".
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Details of the many golden flowers on the copes are picked out with carmine silk thread.
First the metal bits are picked out – artificial hips, head staples, all that stuff.
"When you are picked out in that selective way for mockery, that's one thing.
His eyes are picked out with a key light by which Joan Crawford would have felt flattered.
Two recruits are picked out for being "on the edge", then picked on to see if they break.
There are nearly fifty tales in all, of which a mere three are picked out and woven through the film.
At present, a whole mass of nanotubes is produced and the ones that show the right device-like behaviour are picked out individually.
These refugees are people who are picked out by UNHCR and who have a need to be moved out of the region.
Spaniards are glued to television sets, radio and the internet every 22 December as the lottery numbers are picked out at a Madrid theatre by schoolchildren.
Dietrich's collection of photos and personal memorabilia includes 3,500 costumes though only six are picked out and exhibited each year.
Recipes are picked out in rust-colored text, but Epstein resists measurements, asserting that "recipes should be more like stories than like maps or formulae".
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