Similar words: selective service, elective, selection, collective, reflective, natural selection, collectively, collective farm. Meaning: [sɪ'lektɪv] 
adj. 1. tending to select; characterized by careful choice 2. characterized by very careful or fastidious selection.
adj. 1. tending to select; characterized by careful choice 2. characterized by very careful or fastidious selection. 
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1. Certain characteristics can be developed through selective breeding.
2. She is selective about the clothes she buys.
3. The list provided here is necessarily selective.
4. We're very selective about what we let the children watch.
5. Selective breeding may result in a greyhound running faster and seeing better than a wolf.
6. He has a very selective memory .
7. I'm very selective about the people I associate with.
8. The human memory is notoriously selective.
9. There is potential for selective breeding for better yields.
10. Their admissions policy is very selective.
11. The college has a very selective admissions policy.
12. Sales still happen, but buyers are more selective.
13. He is quite selective about what he studies.
14. The book includes a selective bibliography of works on French art.
15. Most of the girls are extremely selective in their choice of boyfriends.
16. We seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past.
17. As a teacher she was very selective, accepting only a small number of exceptionally gifted pupils.
18. He seemed to have a very selective recall of past events.
19. You will have to be selective about which information to include in the report.
20. Yet there are arguable benefits from practising selective assessment.
21. Among its aims is a new eugenics: selective breeding.
22. Memory is selective and fallible.
23. But selective memory can be a dangerous thing.
24. Compatibility is crucial[sentencedict.com], so the process is highly selective.
25. They co-opt the selective attention circuitry.
26. And the selective system does not seem to disadvantage those at the bottom of the class.
27. As top-tier schools are forced to become less selective, there will be a domino effect.
28. A sound arrangement is an electronic oscillator and detection system employing ganged selective tuning.sentencedict.com/selective.html
29. Nevertheless, there are obvious limitations to a system of selective assessment.
30. It may, therefore, be expedient on certain occasions to utilise taped material in a more selective manner.
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