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
Pat Maio, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
While searching Wallen, an officer pulled out a pocket knife from his front picket.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025
Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025
The union has vowed to strike and picket the two local facilities until better terms are on the table.
—Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Biggest strike ever The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals said the daily pickets at 19 hospitals and clinics across the two-state region would be their largest ever strike against Kaiser.
—Pat Maio, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
While searching Wallen, an officer pulled out a pocket knife from his front picket.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
Union officials said workers would picket both work sites around the clock.
—Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025
The union has vowed to strike and picket the two local facilities until better terms are on the table.
—Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picket
Noun
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Sports Equipment While the dishwasher isn't ideal for cleaning baseball caps, uniforms, or equipment heavily-coated with mud, a trip through a dishwasher cycle is ideal to remove bacteria and odors from mouth guards and hard plastic shin guards.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Hurricanes were without guard Gal Raviv, who is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Jan. 2026
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The renderings of the new ballroom show a giant space walled by arched windows and with splashes of gold and room for some 900 people.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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There was wall to wall Major League Baseball games Wednesday, with four playoff contests being held.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
9 Oct. 2025
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Overpayments and underpayments occur when changes to employees’ salaries or benefits occur after the payroll cutoff date, said Bismarck Obando, a spokesperson for the controller’s office, which is the custodian of the state’s payroll records.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Taking Back the Control For a long time, the simplest way for a business to hold digital assets was to trust a third-party custodian.—
K.H. Koehler,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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The newest season showed Renner's character Mike McLusky confronting a gang war and contending with a headstrong new warden, played by Falco.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, Nina Hobbs (Edie Falco), the season's new warden, is collapsing under the weight of her debt to the Colombians, who've forced her into doing their dirty work.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Dec. 2025
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Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism.—
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
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However, the successful samples have largely been collected from dark caves or other cold and stable environments where DNA is preserved particularly well.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Before her death, Goodall wrote an open letter — shared with PEOPLE by Animals Asia — about her decision to become Robinson's guardian.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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Donors should be in good health with no cold, flu, or COVID-19 symptoms, and must be at least 17 years old, or 16 with a parent or guardian’s consent.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
4 Jan. 2026
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Onondaga Lake is revered as the place where a figure known as the Peacemaker, helped by Onondaga leader Hiawatha, brought the warring nations of Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Onondaga to form the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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Upon announcing a peace deal between the two warring nations, Trump posed at a White House handshaking between the two leaders, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
9 Oct. 2025
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The gas Citizens Energy serves customers, typically methane, is naturally odorless so the company adds mercaptan, which smells like sulfur or rotten eggs, to serve as a sentinel in case there's a gas leak.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
10 Dec. 2025
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The populations in Akwa (also in southeastern Igboland) formed vigilante groups armed with rifles, built towers where sentinels were posted, and their shots would alert villagers if raiders came within sight.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Dec. 2025
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“Picket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picket. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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