Clean
Picking
Picking noun - The act or process of selecting.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- For an oddly casual example, Misae in CLANNAD calls Sunohara this... right before picking him up by the legs and swinging him around to clean up the junk in his room.
Source: Useful Notes / Japanese Pronouns -
Adrian's haircut marks the moment where things finally start picking up for him and he's able to clean up, acquire some assets and allies, and start fighting back.
Source: Important Haircut -
Hank does his best to clean up some of the mess that Xavier carelessly leaves behind (at one point we see McCoy picking up empty liquor bottles).
Source: Film / X-Men Film Series
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Picking and Clean. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean/picking
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Picking or Clean. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean/picking.
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