"pick a lane" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "picks a lane",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picking a lane",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked a lane",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked a lane",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pick a lane (third-person singular simple present picks a lane, present participle picking a lane, simple past and past participle picked a lane)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jason Hirschhorn, quoted in Dawn C. Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn, \"MySpace looks to the past for its future\", The Los Angeles Times (March 10, 2010), p. B3",
          "text": "\"We both looked at the business and said, 'You know what? We still have over 100 million people using us worldwide. We have to pick a lane as to what we're going to be,'\" Hirschhorn said."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 November 16, Mike Cecchini, “Titans Episode 6 Review: Jason Todd”, in Den of Geek",
          "text": "But I'm also left kind of wishing that Titans would just pick a lane and determine whether it wants to be about the team or just be a Nightwing show.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 11, Jared Wyllys, “The White Sox Could Take A Different Approach To This Trade Deadline”, in Forbes",
          "text": "It's going to be interesting because not only do teams sort of have to pick a lane in terms of whether they are buyers or sellers, but the sellers basically have to get their work done sooner rather than later.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To commit to an approach to something."
      ],
      "id": "en-pick_a_lane-en-verb-X5YEroPW"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick a lane"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "picks a lane",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picking a lane",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked a lane",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked a lane",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pick a lane (third-person singular simple present picks a lane, present participle picking a lane, simple past and past participle picked a lane)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jason Hirschhorn, quoted in Dawn C. Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn, \"MySpace looks to the past for its future\", The Los Angeles Times (March 10, 2010), p. B3",
          "text": "\"We both looked at the business and said, 'You know what? We still have over 100 million people using us worldwide. We have to pick a lane as to what we're going to be,'\" Hirschhorn said."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 November 16, Mike Cecchini, “Titans Episode 6 Review: Jason Todd”, in Den of Geek",
          "text": "But I'm also left kind of wishing that Titans would just pick a lane and determine whether it wants to be about the team or just be a Nightwing show.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 11, Jared Wyllys, “The White Sox Could Take A Different Approach To This Trade Deadline”, in Forbes",
          "text": "It's going to be interesting because not only do teams sort of have to pick a lane in terms of whether they are buyers or sellers, but the sellers basically have to get their work done sooner rather than later.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To commit to an approach to something."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick a lane"
}