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The phrase "authorized to pick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone has permission or the right to select or choose something.
Example: "Only the designated personnel are authorized to pick the winners of the contest."
Alternatives: "permitted to select" or "allowed to choose".
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A total of 300 were issued to students, parents, nannies and anyone else authorized to pick up a child.
"Someone else offered them a ride, but that person was not authorized to pick them up, and the school's guardian wouldn't let them go," he said.
In reviewing fraud findings of the Postmaster General, neither this Court nor any other is authorized to pick out parts of the advertisements on which respondents particularly rely, decide that these excerpts would have supported different findings, and set aside his order for that reason.
Sciacca, a new administrator at Estancia, told the father he wasn't authorized to pick up his daughter and asked him to leave campus.
Joel Azumah says the Department of Transportation is scaring his customers away by claiming he's not legally authorized to pick riders off the street.
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Rather than having the ballot mailed, the employees in effect authorized themselves to pick them up.
The estate authorized Wilson to pick from among 104 fragments that have been sitting in limbo for more than 70 years.
Jana Shortt, director of communications for the school district, said parents have been asked to update their contact information and to make sure they have authorized people to pick up their children, if they are let out early.
It specifically authorizes Mueller to pick up the investigation referenced by Comey in March 2016, an investigation that at the time Mueller took it over was a bit under 10 months old ("a fairly short period of time" for a counterintelligence investigation, Comey told the House committee).
According to a law enforcement official who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation, they picked up a trove of information from binders lying atop file cabinets.
The secretive dark money organization leading the campaign to confirm President Donald Trump's latest Supreme Court pick wasn't authorized to operate in Washington, D.C., for much of the past year.
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