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
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
People spanning the width of the streets are passionately chanting and hoisting their picket signs in a patriotic parade, of sorts.
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Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
1 May 2026
The school district announced the tentative agreement with Local 99 in an alert just five hours before employees were scheduled to picket outside their campuses.
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Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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Noun
But people managed to hold small pickets in a few cities.
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ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
People spanning the width of the streets are passionately chanting and hoisting their picket signs in a patriotic parade, of sorts.
—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
Verb
The strike comes amid rising gas prices but was not expected to have a major impact on local prices, according to union workers who picketed.
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Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
1 May 2026
The school district announced the tentative agreement with Local 99 in an alert just five hours before employees were scheduled to picket outside their campuses.
—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picket
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Los Angeles acquired guard Darius Garland in a trade last season, and there are rumors that Kawhi Leonard is on the trade block.
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After the top four picks, the draft was considered wide open with a logjam of talented guards.
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Now, in new arrangements, the Royal Standard will fly whenever Charles is in London, even at Clarence House and not inside the palace walls itself.
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The most successful native of the attention economy now coaches people to wall themselves off from it.
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The business solution provider, on the other hand, acts as the logical custodian of critical processes.
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Williams has never lacked interpreters, custodians, handlers, or rescuers with pruning shears.
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Behind Luka Doncic, the Lakers took care of Austin Reaves by agreeing to a four-year, $185-million contract that will be officially signed toward the end of the offseason to help the Lakers preserve maximum cap flexibility.
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But the circular rose garden has been preserved and maintained, and buds begin to bloom in May, continuing through the summer.
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Judge McCaslin weighed in on the laptop issue during Monday's hearing, saying that the prison warden would not allow Murdaugh to keep a laptop in his cell due to safety concerns.
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McAndrew served as warden of Florida State Prison in the mid-’90s, when Florida still used the electric chair.
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Congress is moving to put more pressure on Sudan’s warring factions, as the three-year war perpetuates one of the globe’s worst humanitarian crises.
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Season 3 continues the bloody battle between the warring factions of the House of Targaryen for control of the Iron Throne.
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The irony is that in not trying to pass muster with more conservative theatergoers (and their fastidious institutional guardians), playwrights have been winning over not just critics but also formerly squeamish artistic directors and perennially nervous Broadway producers.
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Evacuees must provide proof of evacuation, and parents or guardians must remain with their children at all times.
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From its original orbit about 375 miles (600 kilometers) above Earth, Swift was a silent sentinel, ready to quickly pivot to new targets with unprecedented speed.
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Dozens of health organizations and research groups have formed an independent surveillance network to track the presence of dangerous pathogens in community wastewater—a sentinel for potential outbreaks.
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“Picket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picket. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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