picket
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Owning a house with a white picket fence?
From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026
The 24-hour industrial action begins at 07:00 BST on Thursday until 06:59 on Friday, but there will be no picket line demonstrations.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 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
All the district unions are listed because the board must discuss potential actions its several non-striking unions are likely to take on Tuesday: Will they honor picket lines?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
He dripped down the hall, across the stoop, through Mrs. Cobb’s front yard, past the picket gate, and most of the way home.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing picket
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