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Discover LudwigThe phrase "gratuitously pick" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion
It could be used in contexts where one is discussing making a choice or selection without justification or reason.
Example: "He seemed to gratuitously pick the most expensive item on the menu without considering his budget."
Alternatives: "arbitrarily choose" or "randomly select."
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No serious candidate would gratuitously pick a racially charged fight with a federal judge presiding over a lawsuit involving his private business.
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There's no fun, there's no point, and there should be no joy in gratuitously attacking someone or picking an argument out of whole cloth".
What had at first seemed to be freewheeling and gratuitously antic portraits of the pick of the crop in the world of French art and literature soon turned out to be wonderfully and unfailingly exact.
They just gratuitously bring that up as they blame the whole thing on her.
Gratuitously violent.
Not gratuitously, just often.
The pose is gratuitously unsophisticated.
It gratuitously throws a party.
"Lin never gratuitously invents anything," Chernow says.
I am not doing it gratuitously.
I couldn't tolerate gratuitously boisterous laughter.
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