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racketing

verb

present participle of racket
as in clanking

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racketing
  1. clinking
  2. chirping
  3. clicking
  4. clattering
  5. clacking
  6. rattling
Verb
  • Just the sight of the glasses, dewy with condensation on the outside and filled to the rim with clinking ice, nearly chilled my body.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The smell of sterile floors, gowns, instruments on clinking metal trays.
    — Rebekah Taussig, Time, 7 July 2026
Definition of clinking
Verb
  • There’s even a soundtrack of chirping birds and rushing water.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2026
  • According to several people seated near Kanter Freedom, Alter said the former NBA player began chirping at Cloud throughout the quarter.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of chirping
Verb
  • That means two people clicking similar malicious ads may not necessarily receive the same malware.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • But Miami did not need to stretch the field much even when the offense was clicking in the first half.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of clicking
Verb
  • The big old house with its wide wooden floors, and the clattering sound that his hobnail boots made, didn’t daunt him.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Her black bag came off her shoulder and a CD holder went flying, sending bright silver discs clattering across the ground.
    — Timothy Townsend, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of clattering
Verb
  • Heck, our returning champion Carole wasn’t even in this episode other than clacking away on her keyboard.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Once, when his unit came under heavy fire, a soldier running for cover caught a glimpse of Salinger hunched under a table, clacking away like a frenzied newsman on deadline.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of clacking
Verb
  • Higher yields worldwide are rattling all kinds of financial markets.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • There’s a passage in the final movement when the full orchestra, reinforced by trumpets, trombones, tuba, and a thunder roll of timpani, clamber up to a teeth-rattling fortissimo.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of rattling
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“Racketing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racketing. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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