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English word

select

B2Academic AWL-2Frequent NGSL-2
UK /sɪˈlekt/US /sɪˈlekt/
verb

to choose somebody/something from a group of people or things, usually according to a system

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Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022)
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and I both learned that you don't always get all the things in the bag that you selected from the menu in the delivery service that is life.

Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022)

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And we've got not just the Mario theme song, but many others in here that you can change just by pressing the Select button.

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