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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

Cost-of-living concerns, brought on by the flaring up of inflation since the pandemic, have led more union workers to the picket line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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

This house, a large, ram bling gray stucco with a picket fence surrounding the weedy grounds, stood away from the street, perched on a ledge that dropped fifty feet down into the river below.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

And unions have been printing and distributing signs, organizing pickets and mega-rallies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

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

Women played a vital role in the dispute, organising food collections, distributions and fundraising, organising pickets and speaking at rallies.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025

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

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

In June 1984, thousands of miners from across Britain picketed at Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire in a bid to stop lorries delivering coal and collecting coke for Scunthorpe power plant.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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

The workers are currently picketing outside the Stage This studio in Sun Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

“If Augusta National wants people picketing outside their gates,” he says, “they’d stop the gnome.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

The workers stopped picketing, but did not go back to work.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell