picketing

present participle of picket

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Verb
  • Explore Historic Sites and Structures The Warren Heritage Society is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of Front Royal and Warren County, including historic homes, museums, and shops.
    Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Expect Hamas to try to equivocate, buy time, soften language, and insist on impossible guarantees while preserving levers of power.
    Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meet Nashville's new crime-fighting Clydesdale Metro Nashville mounted patrol officer Michael Douglas squeezed a three-foot-long rubber chicken, producing an increasingly louder and closer screeching sound to try and provoke a 1,700-pound Clydesdale named Ross.
    Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The event, launched in 1982, celebrates the freedom to read and express ideas and emphasizes the importance of fighting censorship.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If your internet keeps lagging, buffering or dropping out, one of the quickest fixes is restarting your router.
    Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This means that any hope of signing Paul Skenes to an extension and buffering his performance on the mound with offensive support is probably slim.
    Jared Wyllys, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • More and more coaches are willing to chip pucks behind the defense and let their players chase it, using speed and tenacity to apply pressure and win possession back deep in opposing territory.
    Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But lawyers opposing the government in at least two of the cases opposed the requests.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Iran can achieve that by abandoning water-hungry crops, shifting to smart farming, conserving every drop, and reviving flood-management techniques Iranians once mastered to recharge depleted aquifers.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • While the app is available and encouraged year-round, the week was a spotlight on the importance of joint effort when conserving the environment, Zirk said.
    Madison Beveridge, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yet Harris discovered that being a good soldier doesn’t necessarily help when the vice president is contending for the highest elective office in the land.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As the New York Knicks gear up for what could be a title-contending season in 2025-26, the head coach that led them to their most success this century was spotted several time zones away.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Yoni Mendez-Lopez, 29, a Mexican national, was taken into custody with a record that includes resisting an officer, battery on a law enforcement officer, assault on a law enforcement officer, driving without a valid license, and attempting to flee to elude law enforcement, according to ICE.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Wood explained that speaking out on her feelings about the sketch was about resisting the instinct to shrink herself.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Snow said crews contained the flames to the refinery and were focusing on preventing the fire from spreading.
    Christina Shaw, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The White House insists the law protects taxpayers by preventing undocumented immigrants from getting government health benefits — but such individuals were already barred from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, exchanges.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Picketing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picketing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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