Verb (used with object) : You can cherry-pick your own stereo components. From Dictionary.com.
This is a really egregious case of cherry-picking. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2009] Reference
Both sides accuse each other of cherry-picking data. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2008] Reference
This theme of cherry-picking intelligence is constant. From Wordnik.com. [A War Reporter’s Last Great Dispatch] Reference
But you're cherry-picking on the clip you played there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2009] Reference
Kelly also insists that "cherry-picking is not an option". From Wordnik.com. [Kelly Review live blog] Reference
That one -- that's really an extreme case of cherry-picking. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2009] Reference
She gets the numbers right, but she does some cherry-picking. From Wordnik.com. [True Or Not, Political Ads Kick Into High Gear] Reference
But I really think there was a cherry-picking of intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2005] Reference
EBELL: If we're cherry-picking, these are very large cherries. From Wordnik.com. [Fox News Embraces Cyber-Terrorism to Subvert the Copenhagen Summit] Reference
THOMPSON: Well, No. 1, of course, you're cherry-picking the polling data. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2007] Reference
And I ended with 2008 precisely to avoid the suggestion of cherry-picking. From Wordnik.com. [Did the Bush tax cuts reduce revenue? Of course.] Reference
He says liberals are cherry-picking economic numbers to push their agenda. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2006] Reference
So they are cherry-picking some information and seeing some real hope there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008] Reference
That's just cherry-picking some of Harris 'most egregious anti-environmental votes. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Taylor-Miesle: Congressional Candidates' Views on Clean Energy, Climate Change: MD-01] Reference
You can only apply it to the history of countries by special pleading and cherry-picking. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
So what I do want to do is to make clear to you and everybody else, this is not cherry-picking. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2007] Reference
ENSOR: The spies called it cherry-picking, choosing scraps of intelligence to prove a worst-case scenario. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2006] Reference
There seems to be some measure of agreement that "cherry-picking" is mpt a good way of getting at the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
We will not be cherry-picking which states we deem important, because our attitude is every state is important. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2008] Reference
And, in fact, Wolf, John Kerry is going to go after John Edwards, because he's going to say he's cherry-picking. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2004] Reference
CARVILLE: I think we just saw a senior, very extremely senior CIA man coming and say they were cherry-picking some. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2006] Reference
I sat down here in THE SITUATION ROOM with Paul Pillar earlier today and asked him about that cherry-picking charge. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2006] Reference
He said he's concerned that there has been "cherry-picking" in data from both sides of the privatization debate thus far. From Wordnik.com. [Public health impact of ABC privatization likely mixed, report author says] Reference
It needs to actively reinterpret the violent parts of the religious text rather than simply cherry-picking the peaceful ones. From Wordnik.com. [A Symposium: What Is Moderate Islam?] Reference
Pointing out that she is cherry-picking those things that succeeded, and then trying to distance herself from the things that didn't. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008] Reference
But Obama did a bit of cherry-picking to make the U.S. look that bad (although we suppose that it's more lumps of coal than cherries). From Wordnik.com. [Education Spin] Reference
Democrats before General Petraeus is even talking are questioning the statistics that he's using, saying that he's cherry-picking them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2007] Reference
You know, he's been accused of cherry-picking some of the information to look things -- to make things look better than they really are. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2007] Reference
And I think the standards people felt expressed were that it needed to be comprehensive, it couldn't just be cherry-picking the products. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Prichard Etal] Reference
This is a moment when you and yours will be tempted to run a race just like any other, slicing and dicing the country and then cherry-picking parts. From Wordnik.com. [Attention Must Be Paid] Reference
The Daily Caller builds stories by cherry-picking from threads about Fox News and Rush Limbaugh -- and gets rewarded with pickup on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. From Wordnik.com. [Journolist flap shows conservative media conspiracy, not liberal one] Reference
Libby's critics in the intelligence community accuse him of "cherry-picking" from the evidence to present a case against Saddam that was more menacing than the known facts. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney's Cheney] Reference
Bolton admits that the hard-liners are not what they were in the first term, when Cheney's office was accused of cherry-picking intel to make the case for war against Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady and the Veep] Reference
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