Cherry in a sentence as a noun

I meant to write that this was a cherry-picked metric. Leaving the above as is because people have already replied to it.

It was cherry picked for a funny thought experiment where Joker is the good guy. Now let's try the Volunteer's Dilemma.

Then I realized that he cherry picks research findings to support just-so stories. Every time I sent him back to do more reporting on the rest of the story, he moaned and fumed.

Forming a collective of ones entire life and cherry-picking various moments simply gives you highlights, both good and bad. They don't speak to what the person is right now.

IcoMoon will also let you cherry pick icons from a large number of both free and commercial icon packs. This is a great starting point, especially at the sketching phase.

Anyone else feel that these quotes have been cherry-picked to support 37 signals business philosophy?

Cherry in a sentence as an adjective

The common theme at every level is learning cherry-picked skills, before you're even told what the branches of mathematics even are. Everything seems disjointed because you're not taught to look past the trees for the forest.

Maybe the old-line taxi services ought not to have their business cherry-picked by new market entrants who do things differently. Maybe there ought to be some limits in an urban context on absolute free space-letting if this creates nuisances or the like.

The problem is that finding errors in human interaction leads to pedantry, nitpicking, and cherry-picking. This is especially true as the community grows and interactions with all but the most visible people becomes rare.

It's a more of a subjugation than a transaction, like a sacrifice to a cruel god, the cherry on the cake is you have to actually wait until a person "approves" your purchase/sacrifice.

But on a post-by-post basis -- and if you think Paul Carr cherry-picked his examples, go on Valleywag, they're pretty much all just awful posts of out-of-context tweets -- it fails that goal tremendously. Just like Gawker itself, there are occasionally very well-put posts and actual newsbreaking -- they broke the Uber financial data a couple weeks back -- but it's hard to hold them in high esteem.

You're not arguing with Grellas so much as cherry picking sentences out of his comment and howling at them in isolation. If we extract the signal from your comment --- that partner-track law careers are problematic, that working unreasonably hard is a bad idea for employer and employee alike --- from the emotion, we find a series of arguments that Grellas himself likely agrees with.

Cherry definitions

noun

wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

noun

any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood

noun

a red fruit with a single hard stone

noun

a red the color of ripe cherries

See also: cerise

adjective

of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies