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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

That success, and the money that nourishes it, has battalions of fans beyond Los Angeles all but marching outside ballparks with picket signs reading “SALARY CAP NOW.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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

And there are photos of them doing stuff in the world: cleaning the litter in Carkeek Park, volunteering in a soup kitchen, marching with picket signs at the capitol building in Olympia.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

While pickets lines seem to be everywhere this year, union membership rates have been declining for decades.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

All of our drills and our fatigue duties are transacted under the insolent glare of rebel pickets.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

This year’s SAG Awards arrive in the wake of a grueling summer of dual Hollywood strikes led by writers and actors, many of whom picketed daily outside Netflix headquarters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

But on the day the labor group picketed the restaurant, Paniagua refused to put down his order pad.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

Schneider faces misdemeanor charges of stalking and targeted residential picketing in American Fork and similar charges in Provo, where he went after the Bricks & Minifigs corporate offices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

But as the picketing continued at the White House and was initiated in front of the congressional office building and at the US Capitol, more arrests were made.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler