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
Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2026
With the rise of incel content and tradwife propaganda on social media networks, America may be more fixated on the picket-fence ideal than ever.
—Shamira Ibrahim, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Christina Fan, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
Sharp HealthCare workers represented by the same coalition of unions will picket from Wednesday through Friday.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
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Noun
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
With the rise of incel content and tradwife propaganda on social media networks, America may be more fixated on the picket-fence ideal than ever.
—Shamira Ibrahim, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
Day 8 of picketing More than 100 NYSNA nurses were back out in the brutal cold to picket for an eighth day since the strike started last week.
—Christina Fan, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
Sharp HealthCare workers represented by the same coalition of unions will picket from Wednesday through Friday.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picket
Noun
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Along with Plum’s foul trouble, starting point guard Erica Wheeler finished with five fouls.—
Marisa Ingemi,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2026
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The 20 hours of financial and maintenance training are designed to make sure new homeowners can handle the long-term costs of ownership — property taxes, repairs, insurance — that often catch first-time buyers off guard.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 June 2026
Verb
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At a time when corporate values are often reduced to wall art and mission statements, Paul Ingram has spent years studying what actually drives human behavior inside organizations.—
Rodger Dean Duncan,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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The interiors are timbered wall to wall, from chunky Lincoln Log-style beams to vertical beams cut with their natural edges left intact.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In order to receive the tax advantages of a gold IRA, the IRS requires your precious metals to be held by a qualified custodian.—
Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
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The college currently consists of 11 officers of arms, who undertake the genealogical research and act as custodians of the records.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2026
Verb
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The property is dedicated to preserving the area for generations to come, from the construction materials to the energy usage.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 June 2026
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For Ahn, ensuring that future means preserving and honoring the pipeline that shaped his own cohort.—
Joshua Encinias,
IndieWire,
17 June 2026
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His dad’s old cop buddy (Peter Outerbridge) just happens to be David’s prison warden.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
18 June 2026
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The photo pushes David—who has maintained his innocence all along—to escape from prison with the help of Philip Mackenzie (Peter Outerbridge), the prison warden and a longtime friend of his father who believes him, and Mackenzie’s son Adam (Jonathan Tucker), a police sargeant.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
18 June 2026
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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.—
Adrian Elimian,
semafor.com,
12 June 2026
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The warring factions of the silver-haired Targaryen clan, led by Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) on Team Black and Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) on Team Green, are finally fully stocked with armies and fire-breathing weapons of mass destruction and ready to fight for the Iron Throne.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
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Day had been assigned as King's legal guardian after his grandmother had a stroke, and he was later placed with the Department of Human Services after Day gave him up.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
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Bewildered by the change, Emily scrambles to restore their bond, implausibly teaching herself piano in a bid to impress her guardian.—
Natalia Winkelman,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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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.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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Here and there, fire, wind, and flood would have broken the forest into a mosaic of old and new, grass and forest, shrubs and sentinels.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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“Picket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picket. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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