as in noise
loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound
if all the racket on the stairs is any indication, someone must be moving into apartment 3B
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Recent Examples of racket
Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Seniors visited the Highland Park Community Center on Wednesday morning to hit the treadmill or swing pickleball rackets as library patrons next door signed up for study rooms, walked their tiny tots to the children’s reading area or cracked open newspapers.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 31 July 2025
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Noun
After endorsing Head tennis rackets his entire career, Murray this spring started using a Yonex racket.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
Among the era’s ironies is that the winning number in one gambling racket was, for a time, produced honestly by the results of another.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Seniors visited the Highland Park Community Center on Wednesday morning to hit the treadmill or swing pickleball rackets as library patrons next door signed up for study rooms, walked their tiny tots to the children’s reading area or cracked open newspapers.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racket
Noun
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Armed with new veterans and buoyed with talented youth, the Royals have the ammunition to make some noise.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
22 Aug. 2025
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Chicago is knocking on the door in the NFC, and bringing in Thibodeaux would definitely elevate its chances of making some serious noise.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Other than a slight 20-30% chance of rain along the lakefront Aug. 20, the sun will be shining and the birds chirping.—
Jack Albright,
jsonline.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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After all, the best elements of garden life can be enjoyed in a space the size of a shoe box: a whiff of lilac, a trellis along the wall, sunbeams shining your comfy lounge chair as the birds chirp….—
Kathryn O'Shea-Evans,
Architectural Digest,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Other stimulating features to look for include different textures for their senses, mirrors, rattles and brightly colored toys.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
2 July 2025
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These rattles, found in a neighborhood dating back to the Early Bronze Age, were likely used to entertain children, much like toys today.—
Real-Time news team,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2025
Verb
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Glasses clinked; and at the center of it all was her very first ESSENCE cover, in October 2017.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
4 Aug. 2025
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One night, after clinking glasses, the name for the restaurant became obvious.—
Samantha Husted,
Charlotte Observer,
30 July 2025
Noun
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My focus was straight ahead on the asphalt rushing under us, of course, and the engine noise and roar of the wind precluded chit-chat anyway.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Another American to have heard that roar is Jessica Pegula, who last year reached the US Open final before falling in two close sets to Aryna Sabalenka.—
Coy Wire,
CNN Money,
21 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The Dodgers were more than willing recipients an inning later when Freddie Freeman followed two more Cease walks with a lazy fly ball to center field that drifted toward the track and clanked off Jackson Merrill’s glove to bring home two more runs.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
17 Aug. 2025
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Her shot ultimately clanked off the crossbar, but the idea was there.—
Karen Carney,
New York Times,
27 July 2025
Noun
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For 10 minutes there wasn’t a sound except the occasional chatter of a squirrel.—
Chester Chatfield,
Outdoor Life,
20 Aug. 2025
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The spa is a restorative oasis—with a pool, a Turkish bath, a sauna, and an optional private suites—to ease the day’s muscles and chatter.—
Hannah Howard,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Fate seemed to provide the USMNT with a leveler in the 31st minute, as Juan Pablo Vargas clattered Malik Tillman to the ground by taking out his left leg.—
Jeff Rueter,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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But Hart, somehow, made up the ground, punching the ball just wide of the post at full-stretch before clattering into the net.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
23 July 2025
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“Racket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racket. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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