Examples of pluck

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Antibiotics have traditionally been plucked from nature's battleground.
Then the odd whitewashed marshland cottage stands strangely palpable, as if it could be plucked from the scene and held for ever.
Traditionally, it uses the unsystematic way of plucking fruits by just assigning two supervisors to oversee the 30 or so workers harvesting the fruits.
Policy, like most things, is not plucked from thin air but is the outcome of competing ideologies, values and interests.
At the same time, diplomats are odd people, plucked from their home cultures, yet representing them in alien and perhaps alienating climes.
We consider that the second method is preferable, as this gives equal weight to all plucking points.
Hair from normal and striped regions of the coat was plucked and compared.
The instrument produces an amazing variety of intricacies from the plucked and scraped spines with definite, but unpredictable pitch, and each timbre subtly varied.
Once again, however, the ideas are disembodied and plucked from their historical context.
They won't even realise that you're plucking them of their savings.
Here was a sliver of time saved, protected, plucked from the endless void of forgetting.
Using the assignment model, workers were assigned according to groups and zones of operations in plucking the oil palm fruits.
The method is rather laborious for day-to-day management of tea harvesting, but could be useful where a change in plucking regime is to be made.
As manual harvesting is more selective than mechanical harvesting, the criteria for plucking are necessarily more complex.
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