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cherry-pick
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to choose only the best things, or only the facts that support you
Usually critical in debates ('cherry-picking evidence'). A verb; the noun is 'cherry-picking'.
In context
The report cherry-picks a few good results and ignores the rest of the data.
Big schools cherry-pick the best students, so their results look excellent.
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