Verb
cherry pick (third-person singular simple present cherry picks, present participle cherry picking, simple past and past participle cherry picked)
Alternative form of cherry-pick
(idiomatic) To pick out the best or most desirable items from a list or group, especially to obtain some advantage or to present something in the best possible light.
(rhetoric, logic, by extension) To select only evidence which supports an argument, and reject or ignore contradictory evidence.
From all the available statistics, the politician cherry-picked only those that backed up his ideas.
(US, idiomatic, sports) To position oneself near the opponent's goal to attempt to receive an errant or intentional pass for an easy score, as in basketball or versions of soccer where offsides are not enforced.
(US, idiomatic, broadcasting) To broadcast selected programming from another network.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgcherry-pick
If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever. Andy Taylor
There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from. Burt Rutan
Karen Rupert Toliver and Matthew A Cherry pick up the Oscar for best animated short film for Hair Love. Source: Internet
He added, “You cannot have young men who walk out of the team and cherry-pick when they are going to play and when they are not going to play.” Source: Internet
We get to cherry-pick the organizations that we want to deal with,” says Galt. Source: Internet
In Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Cameron could not "cherry-pick" in the exit negotiations - and there would be a price for Britain to pay. Source: Internet