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The next year, inside a rickety townhouse in Alexandria, Virginia, the Media Research Center — or MRC — was born.
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By 2045, when the film opens, humans have rendered the planet virtually uninhabitable, a dystopia in which American cities are endless slums and the have-nots, like its hero, Wade Watts, are relegated to rickety trailer-park towers.
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Behold any rickety wooden structure located on the water’s edge, and it’s easy to let your imagination fill in the details of its history for you.
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Russia is a rickety house that at some point may crumble.
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While still on the 911 call, Shacknai shoved a rickety wooden patio table next to Zahau’s body and stood on it to cut her down.
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In 2015, tens of thousands of Rohingya on rickety boats fled Myanmar to Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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More than 40,000 of them have fled Congo entirely, crossing Lake Albert in rickety boats to Uganda, where they have been resettled in an ever-expanding refugee camp.
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Decades ago, his visionary father saw potential in rundown Old Sacramento and began to restore its rickety buildings.
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First Known Use of rickety
1673
RICKETY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of rickety for English Language Learners
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: not strong or stable and likely to break
RICKETY Defined for Kids
Definition of rickety for Students
: in poor condition and likely to break
- Just below them, hugging the shore, rose a village of thatched huts, with a small, rickety pier, boats on the sand, and nets spread for mending.
- —Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat
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