Sentence examples for editors picked from inspiring English sources

Inside Pound Hall, the editors picked apart the intellectual and social skills of the 19 contenders, eliminating them in batches.

Digg, founded by Kevin Rose, quickly outstripped Slashdot, the "news for nerds" site where editors picked and chose from among user-contributed links to post on to its news pages.

Several editors picked up on his instransigent stance: "I can't say sorry for Iraq... I'd do it again" (Metro); "I'd take the same decision" (Daily Telegraph); "Blair defiant as Chilcot delivers devastating verdict on Iraq war" (Guardian); "Shamed Blair: I'm sorry but I'd do it again" (Daily Express); and "Defiant Blair: I'd invade Iraq again" (i).

This time an unnamed "panel of writers and editors" picked 50 names which are almost laughably different, with all of the 2013 list's top five left out and only Ha-Joon Chang, PElon Higgs, Elon Musk, Martha Nussbaum, Arundhati Roy, Amartya Sen and Slavoj Žižek of its top 20 retained.

The editors picked Hu Jintao, president of the People's Republic of China, as the world's most powerful man, ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama (No. 2).

From this batch of 400 companies, our writers and editors picked a best-managed company–one from each of 26 industries not only for financial performance but also for leadership, innovation and execution.

Amazon editors pick their favorite books so far for 2011.

And they are editors, picking good books and improving them.

"Producers don't pick the critics, editors pick the critics," Mr. McCarter said.

"Editors pick items that are off-the-charts weird -- that never show up in stores," she said.

With that air of uncertainty, this season's runway shows — when designers unveil their clothes for the following season, editors pick out trends and buyers place orders — is under particular scrutiny.