Choose and Picking

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Choose verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.

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Picking and choose are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Picking" with "Choose", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: choosy, choosing, choosey, chooser

Picking noun - The act or process of selecting.

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Choose and picking are semantically related in gather topic. You can use "Choose" instead a verb "Picking".

Nearby Words: pick, picky, picked, pickup, picker

Oh, and he doesn't get a chance to pick and choose, or even an explicit warning of which injuries he's picking up.

Source: Blessed With Suck / Web Original
She decides to choose a girl at random from a list of names to make friends with, and ends up picking a girl named "Sylvia Gumpopper." It doesn't take long to figure out why the girl in question has that name.

Source: Bubblegum Popping
Corrin: Why bother picking between those two lame-o kingdoms when you could choose the winning side: ME!

Source: Just For Fun / Super Smash Bros.

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