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picket

[pik-it] / ˈpɪk ɪt /


NOUN
person who demonstrates for cause
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Owning a house with a white picket fence?

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

The RMT said its previous strike on Tuesday "was strongly supported by RMT members with well attended picket lines at Tube stations and depots".

From BBC Jun. 4, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 12, 2026

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

The Network started a website highlighting workers’ claims about Royal India and has held periodic pickets outside its Kirkland location since April 2023.

From Seattle Times Apr. 7, 2024

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

Outside a Disney Character Voices office earlier this month, dozens of actors picketed against video game companies for refusing to come to an agreement on using AI in video games.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2025

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

Women picketed the schools and plucked out children who had wandered into them.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

But during the Oscars, which was produced by Quincy Jones, Goldberg, who was hosting, took a swipe at the civil rights leader who was picketing across town.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 17, 2026

WGA West staffers also played a key role in the strike, as they too joined the picketing lines.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2026

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

From BBC Jan. 9, 2026

After an intense lobbying campaign, which included letters, petitions, and more picketing, Carvie Oldham agreed to meet with tenants to hear their grievances—an important first.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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