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  • PatrioticLiberalChristian says: in a debate, no one is quicker than mosswright, cherry-picker, to find a phrase or a word that he can expand to the absurd while his brain becomes even thicker

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 11, 2010 2010

  • Do people with disposable income buy certain goods, or is it a cherry-picker who comes in and buys one item that happens to be on sale, or a new product that's introduced?

    DemandTec's CEO On Why Retail Data Matters 2010

  • Hopefully he will bring even more heavenly illumination to paradise with his unique Wendy Light, his high overhead lamps on a cherry-picker that made night shots far more natural.

    Hero of the Light Brigade Peter Ashley 2008

  • He would need training on how to use a ladder, or would have to hire a cherry-picker (with professionally qualified operator) or erect scaffolding.

    Christmas is cancelled Not a sheep 2008

  • About a month after it began, the tree sit ended in the wee hours of Friday, June 20, when state troopers and INDOT officials arrived with a cherry-picker truck.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

  • He would need training on how to use a ladder, or would have to hire a cherry-picker (with professionally qualified operator) or erect scaffolding.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Midway through the speech, I went up in a cherry-picker, and saw crowd stretching back toward the Brandenburg Gate, though trees obscured whether it actually went all the way.

    Swampland Commenter Pool - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • In addition, although lurid cases will always draw media attention, and I have no doubt that some cherry-picker will respond to this column with just such examples, sexual assaults have not historically been a significant problem in mixed-gender rooms in Canada or England.

    Jacob M. Appel: Are We Ready for Coed Hospital Rooms? 2010

  • Mind you, a shielded cherry-picker with the yellow Mossberg attached may well be just the job! jd on September 10, 2008 at 6: 25 pm | Reply Dave the Dog

    Good For The Goose « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • His staff had a scissors lift (a.k.a. a cherry-picker) and was taking photographers — and, by the end of the evening, print reporters as well — up in it to get crowd shots.

    Poll: Obama, Romney Ahead In Iowa 2009

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