Pick out
Pick out verb - Detect with the senses.
Usage example: The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
Spot
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Someone ridiculously good looking, extra tall, extremely muscular, or with other abnormal features is going to be easy to spot and pick out of a crowd.
Source: Ridiculously Average Guy -
Mervyn Peake, author of Gormenghast, tends to use the word 'qualm' to mean 'shiver or ripple, as of delight' and, oddly, 'prank' to mean 'blotch or spot, pick out, color, highlight'.
Source: Author Vocabulary Calendar
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