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Kumenglish Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Cherry pick

We have decided to cherry pick the best players from our entire team in order to win the match.

Is this sentence correct with cherry pick verb?

  

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It's not wrong, but cherry-pick is most commonly used to suggest that someone is being less than honest in their argument in that they talk about the examples that suggest their opinion is correct, but deliberately ignore many other examples that suggest their opinion is wrong.

  • It's not wrong, but cherry-pick is most commonly used to suggest that someone is being less than honest in their argument in that they talk about the examples that suggest their opinion is correct, but deliberately ignore many other examples that suggest their opinion is wrong.
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It's not wrong, but cherry-pick is most commonly used to suggest that someone is being less than honest in their argument in that they talk about the examples that suggest their opinion is correct, but deliberately ignore many other examples that suggest their opinion is wrong.

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