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Phrase(s): select from someone or something
to make a choice from a group of people or things. • You will have to select from the people we have asked to interview with you today. • They told me that I had to select from what you have in stock., Phrase(s): select someone from something
to choose someone from a group of people. • You will have to select a new secretary from the available pool of workers. • I selected Ted from the applicants I had at the time.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs