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cherry-pick

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cherry-pick someone/something
to choose only the best people or things in a way that is not fair. Isn't there a danger that the state schools might start cherry-picking the pupils with the best exam results? (usually in continuous tenses)

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Northlake resident Mark Allan chided the city for attempting to cherry-pick a Valencia Commerce Center annexation.
AREA RESIDENTS TORN OVER ANNEXATION by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Traditional distribution streams remain limited--Hollywood studios may cherry-pick only a few black films a year--but a new crop of entertainment mavericks are circumventing the establishment by forging other avenues into the business.
Now's the time for Black Hollywood to rise by Black Enterprise
The president's constitutional duty is to faithfully execute the laws as written by Congress, not cherry-pick the laws he decides he wants to follow.
President's claim to be above the law evokes objection by McManus, John F. / The New American
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