Streep’s ‘Sophie’s ____’

noun

1. The act of choosing selection

   "finding it hard to make a choice"

2. Power of choosing option

   "you have no choice"

3. The best part cream

   "Of the cavalry the king's own was the choice."

4. A person or thing chosen

   "she was their first choice"

5. A number and variety to choose among

   "a plan with a wide choice of options"

6. Care in selecting
7. A grade of meat between prime and good

adjective

1. Worthy of being chosen

   "accepting the choicest candidates"

2. Selected with care

   "prepared his report with choice words"

3. Of high quality

   "served choice wine with the dinner"

4. Of a grade between prime and good

   "choice meat"

adjective

1. Antiabortion

noun phrase

1. An axiom in set theory that is equivalent to Zorn's lemma: for every collection of nonempty sets there is a function which chooses an element from each set

noun

1. A situation in baseball in which a batter reaches base safely because the fielder attempts to put out another base runner on the play

noun

1. An apparently free choice when there is no real alternative
2. The necessity of accepting one of two or more equally objectionable alternatives

adjective

1. Having several answers from which one is to be chosen

   "a multiple-choice question"

2. Composed of multiple-choice questions

   "a multiple-choice test"

adjective

1. Favoring the legalization of abortion

noun

1. Pinfish
2. Pigfish

noun

1. A program or policy in which students are given the choice to use public funds to attend a school other than their district's public school (as at a charter school, private school, home school, or at a public school in a different district)

   "Voucher plans were adopted largely as a last resort, an effort to guarantee a semblance of school choice for low-income minority students in failing inner-city schools."