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I suspect he didn't want to give us jackals in the press gallery too many bones to pick over by offering explanations, emotions or any embellishment, but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

But by the mid-'60s, with the New York scene "picked over" by rival labels, Mr. Holzman said, he began looking to Los Angeles and rock.

Labour will move Jeremy Corbyn's speech as party leader to the final day of its conference to avoid it being "picked over" by what is perceived as an increasingly hostile media, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

Every line of his plans will be picked over by legislators.

In fact, that value has been picked over by the early birds.

The convoy crept by a smoldering junkyard being picked over by Iraqis.

Mies has been much picked over by critics searching for flaws.

The cost of the executions is being picked over by local press.

"Sometimes it gets picked over by the end of the week".

In about a year, green, cutting-edge Reppie will replace a vast rubbish dump picked over by hundreds of scavengers.

A shopkeeper told me that captured pirates used to be strapped to wooden posts, their bodies picked over by birds.