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pick off
1. ” Tuskar plucked another toothpick off his desk and slipped it into his mouth
2. If you intend to pick off-the-shelf packages that address niche aspects of your business
3. “So we don’t pick off more of his soldiers in small groups
4. Janet, you’ll pick off any that try to intervene
5. You pick off some of the stragglers too slow to make it through busted windows and door
6. Her trained ears pick up the sound of helicopters approaching from afar and any minute now they’ll descend to pick off people by the tens of thousands
7. If the decoy, say a painted asteroid, gave off the easily mimicked appropriate radiation and electronic readings to fool the invaders’ sensors and if defending scouts were placed where they could ambush and pick off the invaders as they approached what they believed to be the backside of a capital ship, the attacking scouts thus deployed could easily be intercepted and destroyed
8. Once we have broken the main assault line, we will pick off the ships individually
9. One hid behind a shield-projector, making the other two easier to pick off as Tet and Podge did
10. In too close for a moment, I had to drop my spear and use my sword against necks, shoulders, and heads, pulling out again before the enemy could gather their numbers; better to scatter them as they were easier then to run down and pick off one by one
11. The dissenter’s plan was fairly simple: they were to pick off the limousines as they passed
12. As soon as the knights on both sides engaged, the Genoese crossbowmen had stopped firing, for fear of hitting their own side, so the enemy had no longer been able to pick off the English in the water like ducks on a pond
13. But they most likely wouldn’t be able to stop it in time, not just by hoping to pick off the pilot with sniper fire
14. Some of the greatest—and most profitable—market inefficiencies I have encountered have been the result of prejudices that walled off certain opportunities from “proper investing” … and thus left them for flexible investors to pick off far below their fair value
15. Half of them are probably losers they pick off the welfare line and buy with a pack of smokes