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hand-picked  adj.  Carefully selected; as, a hand-picked jury; the company's president groomed his hand-picked successor.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hand-picked" Quotes from Famous Books



... facts through a sieve and threw away all the big chunks that would not go through the fine mesh of his prejudices. He abhorred falsehood, cruelty, skepticism, sectarianism, and narrowness, and his sermons were unconscious mixtures of hand-picked truth and eloquent legends, ruthless denunciations of misunderstood people and views, atheism toward the revelations of all the sciences (particularly the science of biblical criticism, which he hated worse than he hated Haeckel), and a narrowness that ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... A hand-picked man, Dan Barstow, chosen for the AF's most important project of the year because he and his VX-3 had already broken all previous records set by hordes of V-2s, Navy Aerobees and anything else that flew ...
— Shipwreck in the Sky • Eando Binder



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