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Stop by the Tackle Box Bait shop anytime between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, and Friday, May 23, or 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 24, and Sunday, May 25, to get a bucket and a picker to collect litter.
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Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
When Norma dies, the family gathers, and Delia, an apple picker (who works with Charlie); Cece, the professor and Bebe, the DJ, all head home to the family estate.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 May 2025
It was built in the 1930s as part of a plantation, and the house itself was initially one large room built for the mango pickers, who were likely Bahamian or Mexican.
—Dinkinish O’Connor, Saveur, 8 May 2025
Amazon The new robots will work on the same line as human pickers and will aim to spare them from back-aching work by grasping more items from shelves that are high up or down low.
—Will Knight, Wired News, 7 May 2025
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Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
When Norma dies, the family gathers, and Delia, an apple picker (who works with Charlie); Cece, the professor and Bebe, the DJ, all head home to the family estate.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 May 2025
It was built in the 1930s as part of a plantation, and the house itself was initially one large room built for the mango pickers, who were likely Bahamian or Mexican.
—Dinkinish O’Connor, Saveur, 8 May 2025
Amazon The new robots will work on the same line as human pickers and will aim to spare them from back-aching work by grasping more items from shelves that are high up or down low.
—Will Knight, Wired News, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picker
voter
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Trump won the 2016 and 2024 U.S. presidential elections in part by appealing to working class voters hurt by the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs over many years.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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Janet Lynn Stumbo leaned on her cane and surveyed the two dozen or so voters who had convened in a small Appalachian town to meet with the chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party.—
Bill Barrow,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2025
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“Picker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picker. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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