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This perception of economic abundance spread in the 1950s with the post-WWII boom, perhaps best symbolised through the growth of single-family homes adorned with white picket fences.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Owning a house with a white picket fence?

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

A market in which private equity increasingly buys up single-family housing isn’t going to yield havens of picket fences and prosperity.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Mamdani walked the picket lines with nurses and addressed a rally of union workers on May Day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

She was buried with her people in the cemetery behind First Congregational, straight in front of the headstone that marked the family plot, not far from her grandfather of the perfect picket fence.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

The city council said it had suspended collections across the city for the day due to the "mass pickets and protests" across its depots.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025

On pickets, speeches captured the dark but defiant mood.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024

After months of stalled negotiations, pickets, strike threats and mounting financial uncertainty, PCC Community Markets has reached a tentative labor deal with its about 1,600 unionized hourly workers, both sides said Wednesday.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

The performers union, SAG-AFTRA, hosted two Halloween pickets on Tuesday, “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble!” at Netflix and “Spooky Solidarity Day” at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

Buford rode out far enough to see the pickets for himself, then he rode back toward the green hills.

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

He picketed alone outside Google and Microsoft in his home city of Seattle, carrying a sign: “Death of Human Invention & Discovery = Depressing,” according to his social-media posts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

In 2023, they endured the dual writers’ and actors’ strikes, where many of them picketed alongside their more recognizable colleagues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

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

They were known as "scabs" by striking miners, who picketed as they arrived at work.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024

Sons and daughters joined their mothers to support their fathers as they marched or picketed around the Yard.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Richard Scandaliato, president of San Pedro’s South Shores Community Assn., said the reversal was “unbelievable” after months of near-weekly picketing and hundreds of letters that neighbors wrote to state officials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Those early years were marked by bitter and sometimes brutal incidents involving picketing farm workers who screamed “ Huelga! “

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

The law states that it does not “prohibit any expressive conduct including peaceful picketing or other peaceful demonstration.”

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 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

Marx & Haas went to court to stop the picketing.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell