Today’s “Word of the Day” is pick on and it is a phrasal verb meaning “single out someone to criticize/blame repeatedly & unfairly; bully, victimize, tyrannize, torment, persecute; criticize, irritate, blame, or punish”.
Example Sentence: Now any country thinking of using its supposed military might to pick on a small neighbour to the dislike of the western democratic alliance will have to calculate the consequences for their own central bank being frozen out of the system, and with it, economic warfare being used in such speedy form as a much more powerful form of influence.
This word is present in The Guardian article Putin’s errors over Ukraine could herald big change for global finance and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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