as in guard
a person or group that watches over someone or something
set out a picket to watch the camp
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Recent Examples of picket
Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Send any news, comments, Boeing picket sign long-term maintenance tips, and fiduciary walking papers to [email protected].
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2024
Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
So far, workers in a dozen metro areas have picketed, including in Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Denver, and Columbus, Ohio.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Listen to this article Thousands of UC San Diego workers in health care and beyond plan to strike for better wages and benefits Wednesday, participating in overlapping statewide pickets at University of California campuses statewide.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Send any news, comments, Boeing picket sign long-term maintenance tips, and fiduciary walking papers to [email protected].
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2024
Verb
Hemphill pleaded guilty in 2022 to one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing at the Capitol Building, and prosecutors, in turn, dropped three additional misdemeanor charges.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
So far, workers in a dozen metro areas have picketed, including in Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Denver, and Columbus, Ohio.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picket
Noun
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The Kings finalized a deal with free agent guard Terence Davis on Wednesday, bringing back a member of the original Beam Team.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The two men took two prison guards captive in what would become one of the longest prison standoffs in the history of the United States.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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To imagine that American can ‘win’ by shouting over it, taxing it into silence, or walling it off with tariffs is not only wrong, but economically suicidal.—
Lela London,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Viewers are not so much invited into the drama, however, as they are walled out of it.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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In recent months, budget adjustments have been made to correctly calculate the salaries of classified employees, who are the district’s support staff such as custodians, cafeteria workers and librarians, Long said.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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The demonstration came to a head in late April as protesters took Hamilton Hall, damaging property and trapping custodians inside.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2025
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The Colorado Department of Corrections placed four leaders — including the wardens overseeing three state prisons — on administrative leave on the same day earlier this month, an agency official confirmed this week.—
Shelly Bradbury,
The Denver Post,
19 Mar. 2025
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But the state has delayed those transfers until at least March 31, said Ray Sanchez, an assistant deputy warden.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2025
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She is scheduled to take office in August and will serve a 10-year term on the court, preserving its narrow 4-3 liberal majority.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
2 Apr. 2025
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The researchers are proposing this as a better way to preserve the memories of your beloved toys and other personal items, as well as to help present objects for closer examination to museum visitors.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
2 Apr. 2025
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Users can report offensive content, and for players under 16 years of age, a parent or guardian must first enable the feature using Nintendo’s parental controls app.—
Kimberly Zapata,
Parents,
3 Apr. 2025
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In her big-screen debut opposite Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Danielle Brooks, Myers ventures into the Overworld as Natalie, a savvy young adult who has just become the legal guardian of her little brother, Henry (Sebastian Hansen), after their mother’s death.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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While the talks have been ongoing between U.S. and Russian and, separately, U.S. and Ukrainian officials, the two warring countries continue to launch attacks at each other.—
Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2025
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In the novel, the worst of The Troubles are over, but peace between warring factions is not at hand.—
Claude Peck,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2025
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The sentinels are currently being tested at Deep’s facility in Gloucestershire near Wales.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
5 Feb. 2025
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In emerging outbreaks or bioterror events, animal illnesses have the potential to act as sentinels—the first to show signs of a disease—as well as be informative for understanding the geographic scope and severity of an event, Murphy explained.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Picket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picket. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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