• Some banks have cherry-picked their investments to provide instant profits.
• He called their actions “financial cherry-picking”.
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They cherry-picked the most promising potential customers and concentrated their efforts on them.
»Policymakers will cherry-pick ideas from the study, and commit to implementing only the easiest and cheapest ones.
He was accused by his colleagues of cherry-picking when he selected all the best students for his own course.
• Be very selective
• Select carefully
• Select the best and leave the rest