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
Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 25 July 2025
Bryan Wayne Ivey: Ivey, of Crossville, was sentenced in March 2022 to three years probation, including two months of home detention, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing inside Capitol grounds.
—Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Pat Maio, Oc Register, 8 June 2025
Those nine figures topped the picket signs of actors and writers during Hollywood strikes in 2023.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 May 2025
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Noun
Here’s Philadelphia chapter, picketed the company at the city’s stadium district during the Phillies’ final regular season series before the playoffs.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 25 July 2025
Bryan Wayne Ivey: Ivey, of Crossville, was sentenced in March 2022 to three years probation, including two months of home detention, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing inside Capitol grounds.
—Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Verb
More pickets are planned at a handful of supermarkets.
—Pat Maio, Oc Register, 8 June 2025
Those nine figures topped the picket signs of actors and writers during Hollywood strikes in 2023.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picket
Noun
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Her challengers have highlighted these controversies as evidence the city is due for a changing of the guard.—
Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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The castle itself is an enemy in its own right, shifting and breaking around the slayers to throw them off guard and keep them apart.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The first two shows of this season have been wall to wall.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
27 Aug. 2025
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Meanwhile, OpenAI and its rivals have also become more aggressive in their efforts to keep individual users walled into their chatbots, where the companies can accrue valuable data and charge subscription fees.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The estate is custodian of all works and legacy of Tolkien published during his lifetime, and the joint custodian of works published after his death with the Christopher Tolkien Estate.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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The United Arab Emirates, on the other hand, has provided significant support to the RSF, viewing its commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – widely known as Hemedti – as the custodian of Sudan’s gold exports and the path to its plans for port development along the Red Sea coast.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Game wardens responded to the scene and fatally shot the animal, officials said.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
15 Sep. 2025
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Eventually, the warden showed up and welcomed them to el infierno—hell.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
12 Sep. 2025
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Some Cosmists saw technology as destructive and transformative, while others believed its role should be to protect and preserve.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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At the center stands a bronze Caryatid by Louis Félix Chabaud, a classical guardian presiding over a resolutely modern space and anchoring the atrium from below.—
Erica Wertheim Zohar,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The survivors watched in terror as their guardian was relieved of his suit.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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His order comes a week after the university became embroiled in a controversy between two warring factions in the school’s board of trustees over the legality of the appointment of McCormick as president.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
29 Aug. 2025
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Baker might even have brought the warring factions into the governor’s office and banged some heads until an agreement was reached.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The sentinels of conventional wisdom settled on the view that the Iraq invasion was one of the great own goals of American foreign policy, and that its beneficiary was Iran.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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At the summit, the ruins of the Castle of Monsanto perch atop the craggy heights like a stone sentinel—offering sweeping views over the Beira Baixa plains.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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“Picket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picket. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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