Synonyms for selection
sɪˈlɛk ʃənse·lec·tion

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1. selection

   Synonyms:
   choice, option, election, excerption, gathering, preoption, segregation, adoption, preference

   Antonyms:
   rejection, repudiation, refusal, exclusion, postponement

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1. choice, selection, option, picknoun

   the act of choosing or selecting

   "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"

   Synonyms:
   extract, cream, survival, filling, alternative, excerption, picking, choice, plectrum, option, woof, pick, plectron, excerpt, survival of the fittest, natural selection, weft, pickax, pickaxe

2. selectionnoun

   an assortment of things from which a choice can be made

   "the store carried a large selection of shoes"

   Synonyms:
   pick, survival, choice, extract, excerpt, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection

3. choice, pick, selectionnoun

   the person or thing chosen or selected

   "he was my pick for mayor"

   Synonyms:
   pickax, pick, filling, alternative, survival, excerption, picking, choice, plectrum, option, woof, plectron, excerpt, survival of the fittest, natural selection, cream, weft, extract, pickaxe

4. survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selectionnoun

   a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

   Synonyms:
   survival, pick, endurance, choice, extract, excerpt, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection

5. excerpt, excerption, extract, selectionnoun

   a passage selected from a larger work

   "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"

   Synonyms:
   survival, pick, excerpt, choice, extract, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection, infusion

Matched Categories

1. • Assortment
   • Decision Making
   • Natural Process
   • Passage

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1. selectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   choice, pick

2. selectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   democracy

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1. selectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   choice, election, preference, pick, collection, assortment

   Antonyms:
   promiscuity, indiscrimination

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1. List of paraphrases for "selection":

   selecting, shift, choice, select, screening, sélection, selected, choices, adjudication, choosing, breeding, selector, choose, selections, election, sel, selectivity, option, pick

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How to use selection in a sentence?

1. Anuj Somany:

   Election is the process of selection of a person who uses the power of own position to seek merely pleasure for oneself and inflicts atrocity & pain to the ordinary population, as seen often in the past like demonetization, mask mandate & forced vaccination and so on

2. Debra Birnbaum:

   It is a complete game changer. It really is anything can happen and that was instituted so that there would be change and a wider selection of winners on Emmy night.

3. Lawrence Restieri Jr.:

   Manager selection is always important and especially important in alternatives, you just end up with a wider range of outcomes.

4. Laura Jeffers:

   This guideline goes a step further by focusing on the other food items that kids are exposed to at school and how to improve the quality and selection of food brought into schools (e.g., snacks, food during fundraisers and sporting events, etc.).

5. Zeresenay Alemseged:

   Understanding if climbing was part of a species' adaptation and to what extent are crucial, that tells us a lot about its ecology and the type of selection forces that were acting on it. The new study supports many previous studies that the foot in A. afarensis was adapted for upright walking and was largely human-like. It also reveals that a few features, especially mobility, are a bit different.