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picket

[pik-it] / ˈpɪk ɪt /


NOUN
person who demonstrates for cause
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The group has collected thousands of signatures in a petition to get the school to open its gates, and is collaborating with students to potentially picket together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Salud Garcia, 80, walks a picket line to fight for higher wages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

You would like to get married, have 2.5 kids and buy a house with a white picket fence.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Owning a house with a white picket fence?

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

A lot of them have white picket fences.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

While some earlier protests did turn violent, she wrote, recent pickets outside Portland’s ICE headquarters have featured lawn chairs and low energy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

Collections were said to have been disrupted "due to industrial action by pickets" where police recently scaled down their presence.

From BBC ● May 24, 2025

That’s the position workers promoted this week during pickets at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

The NUM sent protesters - known as flying pickets - to disrupt and pressure working miners.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024

Longstreet sent Goree to find out what was happening and it turned out to be nothing much—skirmish of pickets in Anderson’s front.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

A Jerusalem cafe picketed for weeks by observant Jews said Thursday it had agreed to shut on the Sabbath, bowing to demands despite counter-protests by secular Israelis.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Less than three dozen people picketed outside of OpenAI’s offices, but the demonstration sparked a bitter feud on an effective altruist forum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Workers picketed outside their newsroom in London to protest the proposed sale to Tortoise Media, arguing it had been “rushed through” without the support of the staff.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

SAG-AFTRA video game actors picketed outside Warner Bros., home of a major gaming studio, in Burbank while striking over artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

Others joined in only once or twice while on vacation; a few picketed while on their honeymoons.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

But for now, WGA’s staff union will be picketing outside of its Fairfax offices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

Ministers really didn't want to do that with NHS staff picketing outside the parliament.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

The picketing machinists benefited from a strike fund while they were off the job but were under increasing pressure as healthcare coverage lapsed for some families.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

One lawmaker apparently complained that protesters have been picketing at her house and targeting her kid, one source told the Wall Street Journal's Olivia Beavers.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

Some said that picketing had become “little less than criminal” and called it the most outrageous of the “foolish, childish methods you have used trying to harass our overburdened president.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling


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