wicket

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Recent Examples of wicket The venue will be reshaped to the field dimensions of cricket, which differ markedly to baseball, and specialized drop-in turf wickets will be installed. Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025 The wicket that will be utilized at the Coliseum is currently in Nassau County, N.Y., where it was most recently used at the World Cup. Melissa Lockard, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025 Following that, the team took on Bangladesh, winning that matchup by five wickets. William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025 Among the bowlers, Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav took two wickets each. Manasi Pathak, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wicket
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Noun
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    Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • In a wafer-thin crystalline sample of nickel iodide, the team observed that the spins of nickel atoms were arranged in a spiral pattern throughout the material’s lattice.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • In addition to crown molding, the dining room has a chair rail and enjoys immediate access to the kitchen through solid double doors.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Super 8 is planning a full roof replacement, a new front entrance with automatic double doors and the implementation of PTAC heaters and coolers in all of the hotel’s 80 rooms, which will cost $195,000.
    Erin Yarnall, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Scientists dug around the trapdoor to catch the bristly animal — and discovered a new species.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 May 2025
  • Instead, Markiewicz said, the team decided to keep the quest a little more grounded, eschewing magic altogether and having Geralt dropped through a trapdoor into a pit of spiders.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • According to Costa, a preliminary investigation found that the victim was delivering mail to the residence when a 5-year-old pit bull forced the storm door open and attacked him.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
  • Ralph rang the bell and when the door opened, Lester, who is white, fired a handgun at him through the glass of the storm door, per a probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Medieval amenities include a moat, two watchtowers and two gates, a drawbridge, an underground cave (complete with a Jacuzzi!), trap doors, and a genuine portcullis (a metal-and-wood gate typically seen in medieval fortresses).
    Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 20 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • At the same time, the revolving door between activist nonprofits and government agencies is raising serious ethical and legal questions.
    Dan Eberhart, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • Between the revolving door of coaches and the roster upheaval this season, the Rangers have been anything but stable.
    Arthur Staple, New York Times, 2 May 2025

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“Wicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wicket. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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