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Recent Examples on the Web There was a sense of terminal decline or terminal corrosion about government post-COVID, with the government being really rickety, and then this new leader that didn’t have a huge amount of relative endorsement from the Party. . . . Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2022 Some are too rickety to reliably relocate delicate bottles and glassware without fear of a smashup, others are bereft of functional features, and still others simply don’t look attractive enough to grace your living space. Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 16 Sep. 2022 The underpinnings of the economy, however, still look rickety. Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 15 July 2022 Those who are old enough remember being afraid to ride the rickety wooden roller coaster. Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for rickety 

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“Rickety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rickety. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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