choose among

choose among (people or things)

To select from a group of options. The supervisor will choose among these candidates for someone to fill the position.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

choose among someone or something

to make a choice of a person or thing from a variety of possibilities. We will choose among the names on the list you gave us. I need to choose among the car models available.
See also: among, choose
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
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  • be first among equals
  • apportion
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References in classic literature
It's hard to choose among so many remarkable people who have lived.
Then again the father sent forth all the blessed and eternal gods besides: and they came, one after the other, and kept calling her and offering many very beautiful gifts and whatever right she might be pleased to choose among the deathless gods.
441-459) And all-seeing Zeus sent a messenger to them, rich- haired Rhea, to bring dark-cloaked Demeter to join the families of the gods: and he promised to give her what right she should choose among the deathless gods and agreed that her daughter should go down for the third part of the circling year to darkness and gloom, but for the two parts should live with her mother and the other deathless gods.
I'm sure, if I had HIS imperial, I could pick and choose among all the second-class heiresses in town."
But either because inquiry was too slow-footed to overtake him, or because the description applied to so many pedlars that inquiry did not know how to choose among them, weeks passed away, and there was no other result concerning the robbery than a gradual cessation of the excitement it had caused in Raveloe.
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Summary: New Delhi (India), July 5 (ANI): It is going to be one tough task for moviegoers to choose among 'Mission Mangal,' 'Saaho,' and 'Batla House' as all the three movies are scheduled to hit theaters on August 15.
We need not choose among the latest scions of political families, or from those who have been released from prison for public theft and whitewashed back into respectability.
The collaboration with the Center for Sport at Tulane allows students to choose among courses to receive graduate level certificates in sports administration, coaching or security.
One cannot pick and choose among civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
Choose among items such as a wireless power bank or a Bluetooth headset.
Silkbank cardholders will also have the liberty to choose among different tenures to book installment plans for payments in real-time, thustransforming their retail purchase experience.
As a result, the president had to choose among the seven oldest members.
"The study suggest that people should consider eating more plant proteins than animal proteins, and when they do choose among sources of animal protein, fish and chicken are probably better choices than red meat," Song suggested.