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"picked holes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to find weaknesses in an argument or a plan. For example, "The professor picked holes in the student's research plan, offering helpful suggestions on how to improve it."
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Pick holes.
If you pick holes in a plan,theory, argument, etc, you find problems with it.
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"I thought he picked holes well.
More recently, the right has picked holes in the research.
This was mirrored elsewhere as economists picked holes in the so-called comprehensive settlement.
The White House doesn't like Standard & Poor's downgrading of America's debt — it even picked holes in the firm's numbers.
Government officials busily picked holes in the referendum result, pointing out that since only 66% of voters turned out barely half the electorate backed autonomy.
Reasonably enough, they picked holes in the existing system of public interest immunity certificates, under which judges protect security by wielding the black marker pen.
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John Naughton picks holes in Amazon's reasoning.
Picking holes in individual policies is relatively easy.
He just wants to pick holes in those who do.
You can pick holes with some of these mainstream positions.
But even when the EMH still seemed fresh, economists were picking holes in it.
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