hand-picked

Trade represenative is an ambassador level appointment which means he was hand-picked by Obama.

That would mean that there really is a staff pick category with hand-picked projects, but that the badge itself can be added by any campaign.

Are stories hand-picked or are they aggregated automatically based on popularity or such?

What if there was an AI that hand-picked resources for me to read?

Sounds a lot like a grand jury stuffed with hand-picked jurors.

In any case, Reddit has become a new mainstream site full of propaganda, censorship, shadowbanning, hand-picked news, etc.

I used to be a really large fan of RSS because it fulfilled the dream of bringing hand-picked content to the user, in one place.

In a proper world, VCs would recognize all their darling, bespoke, hand-picked companies depend on the public infrastructure of open source (and unaffiliated) developers to super accelerate the growth of their portfolio companies.

> I have concluded that universities do not operate by a merit based system, but rather by a form of elitist inbreeding wherein only a handful of privileged individuals are hand-picked through political intrigue and spoon fed to glory by a handful of privileged individuals who were hand-picked through political intrigue and spoon fed to glory.

If you read these docs, you find that they are asking that reviewers be hand-picked for "objectivity", and it's clear from the context that this means "not global warming skeptics".

Then there are dozens of hand-picked lists of apps such as "Summer Road Trip" or "Stargazing." In fact, finding favor with the App Store Editors is one of the few well-known paths to indie app development success.

Now seriously, when I read this: "In politics-heavy environments, there is nothing more effective in pursuing a personal agenda than using "facts" and numbers - even when those facts and numbers are hand-picked to support a certain story." I can not help but think of the cherry-picking that the current article I'm reading does.