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First, the concept of PHFS is put forward, and its operations are presented, simultaneously. Second, the generalized picture hesitant fuzzy weighted aggregation operators are developed, and some theorems and reduced operators of them are discussed. Third, the generalized picture hesitant fuzzy prioritized weighted aggregation operators are put forward to solve the MCDM problems that the related criteria are at different priorities. Fourth, two novel MCDM methods combined with the proposed operators are constructed to determine the best alternative in real life. Finally, two numerical examples and an application of web service selection are investigated to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods. 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