plucked

Freddy Gray was plucked from a sidewalk, detained, and then killed, for literally no lawful reason.

Adopted siblings raised in the same household grow up to be no more similar than strangers plucked off the street.

It's no wonder that they considered liver, plucked fresh and warm from the body of a still-quivering kill, to be a delicacy.

Now we live in a post-boomer, globalized economy where the low hanging fruit has all been plucked.

I haven't noticed any pitchforks, no warming buckets of tar and chickens being plucked, just people deleting the app.

When I pointed out that pork does in fact count as a meat product, he plucked it off with chopsticks.

That was a fabricated example, rather than something plucked from our codebase.

These numbers were just plucked out of thin air for rhetoric.

With respect, this seems like numbers were plucked out of somewhere.

I think it's more that the low hanging fruit has been plucked than that there is a 'fall' of industrial research labs.

At some point, the claims that it made started to be tested rather than simply taken on authority, basic knowledge was accumulated, and the low hanging fruit was plucked.

A decade ago I may have said yes, but now all the opinions I see getting play are bog standard points plucked from the American political spectrum.

When Plato defined Man as "A featherless biped," someone showed him a plucked chicken.

If rental properties required 50% equity by landlords (as a plucked from the air example) you'd see a rather fewer leveraged to the hilt property "moguls" and less competition.

There are other websites that do this as well, and do it better, but they should be leaping to more complicated stuff once they have "plucked the low hanging fruits" for the establishment of their services.

Here's a sentence plucked randomly from the linked chapter: > "Generative grammars were originally devised as a method to formally describe sets of linguistic phrases." Let me just go through that: "originally devised" -> "Devise" implies originality.