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Being picked feels like destiny, but someone with a clipboard usually made the call.
means Selected or singled out from a group, often with an implied sense of being preferred, favored, or set apart for a purpose.
from The past participle of "choose," which comes from Old English "ceosan" (to choose, taste, try), rooted in a Proto-Germanic verb that gives German "kiesen" its cousinhood. That older sense of "tasting" or "testing" hints at how choosing once meant sampling before settling. The weighty, almost biblical ring of "the chosen" rides on centuries of English Bible translations describing a chosen people.
- word origin
- From Old English ceosan, simply to taste or try
- narrative fuel
- The chosen one drives countless myths and franchises
- selection bias
- Survivors get chosen; the rest stay statistics
- burden included
- Being chosen rarely means being asked first
neo from the matrix — thomas anderson, the protagonist prophesied to end the war between humans and machines in 1999
moses in torah — hebrew leader chosen by god to deliver the israelites from egyptian slavery
harry potter — boy chosen as 'the one' to defeat voldemort in the harry potter series