"cherry pick" meaning in Anglais

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Verb

Audio: En-au-cherry-pick.ogg Forms: to cherry pick [infinitive], cherry picks [present, third-person, singular], cherry picked [preterite], cherry picked [participle, past], cherry picking [participle, present]
  1. Sélectionner le meilleur. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: fr-cherry_pick-en-verb-cP~G2hLG Categories (other): Métaphores en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cherry picking Related terms: cherry-pick, cherrypick

Inflected forms

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