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was picking
verb
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
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He was picking flowers by the water.
Who was picking the latter?
"I was picking up Washington.
Blair's curse was picking the wrong one.
My mother was picking the peas out.
Yarnell was picking up insurgent radio traffic.
"I was picking daffodils," she said.
A boy who was picking on girls?
"I thought I was picking up".
It was picking the word "intelligence" and pluralizing it.
Still, he was picking up a similar community-based ethos.
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