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pick a lane

pick a lane verb: to commit to an approach to something.

Verb

pick a lane (third-person singular simple present picks a lane, present participle picking a lane, simple past and past participle picked a lane)

  1. To commit to an approach to something.
    • "We both looked at the business and said, 'You know what? We still have over 100 million people using us worldwide. We have to pick a lane as to what we're going to be,'" Hirschhorn said.2010, Jason Hirschhorn, quoted in Dawn C. Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn, "MySpace looks to the past for its future", Los Angeles Times (March 10, 2010), p. B3
    • But I'm also left kind of wishing that Titans would just pick a lane and determine whether it wants to be about the team or just be a Nightwing show.2018 November 16, Mike Cecchini, “Titans Episode 6 Review: Jason Todd”, in Den of Geek

Forms of pick a lane

third-person singular presentpicks a lane
present participlepicking a lane
past participlepicked a lane
pastpicked a lane

Questions about pick a lane

What does pick a lane mean?
Pick a lane means to commit to an approach to something.
What part of speech is pick a lane?
Pick a lane is a verb.
What is the past tense of pick a lane?
The past tense of pick a lane is picked a lane.

Words near pick a lane in the dictionary

  1. pick 'em
  2. pick 'n' mix
  3. pick 'n' mixes
  4. pick a fight
  5. pick a hole in someone's coat
  6. pick a lane
  7. pick a quarrel
  8. pick and choose
  9. pick and mix
  10. pick and pack
  11. pick and pass

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