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Pickings in a sentence as a noun

Slim pickings still, but much better than just TF2/SS3:BFE.

I'm sure there are others out there, but the pickings are getting thinner and thinner.

That's just easy pickings right there. edit: that doesn't mean it's okay to zip around people on the right.

Other than that, it's pretty slim pickings... whereas for males, there are too many to count.

Without data, you're just a fashion blogger who thinks they're among easy pickings.

It's almost like a bit of a game, a treasure hunt, where small pickings on route keep one's hopes up of rich pickings down the road. A game that can be set down and picked up later as time allows.

If you go actually look at the job postings in a lot of areas it is slim pickings right now. The pay is bad, the benefits are worse, and the competition is high.

People like people who are like them, with pretty much everyone exposing their lives and opinions, stuff like this is up for easy pickings. That doesn't sound very sincere.

Also I live in Austin so the number of alumni has now doubled since I'm back, to give you an idea of how slim the pickings are. I don't know how much the exit mattered.

- I'm even more surprised when overseas how slim the Honda pickings are. I think in a couple-three weeks in London I may have seen 3 Eurostyle civics.

People like people who are like them, with pretty much everyone exposing their lives and opinions, stuff like this is up for easy pickings. Respect to the guy's persistence.

A income of $100K would be well-advised to stay under $2500, where pickings are increasingly slim. > "Also, bear in mind most people live in couples" Citation needed.

And when the market does shift, the incumbent that fired all its engineers will be easy pickings for the new breed of competitors. It's not just a tech industry issue either.

Meanwhile, they are easy pickings for other competing populations.

Only the privileged amongst the youth can afford the slim pickings that are available, as the rent is enough to crush the savings of more modestly salaried engineers. Who is right?

Similarly your big retail chains don't evade VAT because they're easy pickings for the tax authorities. Non-salaried people, small-time business persons etc.

In fact my belief that the pickings couldn't be so slim was the reason I asked her to send me all of them, though I gave her some other excuse at the time. I also pulled twice as many candidates as she did, and was willing to spend up to an hour of my own time on the phone with them.

It's because of this short-sightedness of programmers that there will always be easy pickings available to anyone who actually looks at problem. Be a problem-person, not a solution-person.

In the event of a market pull back desperate companies should be easy pickings for the big boys to acquire talent and other interesting goodies. Leverage -- that makes bubbles very dangerous and unpredictable.

I was contacted right after the Elopcalypse, when all Nokia engineers and subcontractors were fair game and easy pickings. Had one recruiter phone screen with some easy questions, a technical phone interview and then was informed they decided to skip the second phone interview.

People who lack perspective are easy pickings for silver tongued writers who make emotionally-potent audience-felating oversimplifications.

You have your pickings! Are they all kinda similar? Well yeah, but so are the men in all other areas whose economies are heavily mono-industrial. As a matter of fact, so are the women in areas whose economies are heavily mono-industrial with emphasis on more "feminine" professions, and the women in areas with populations more female than male. I would say "lower your standards", but that allows you to hold on to the whole dehumanizing concept of dating-as-meat-market you've got going. In fact, you should be getting over yourself and understanding that all these "insufferable" men, of whom you have your pickings, are human beings with life histories and hopes and dreams of their own.