rickety
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I’m not one for vehicular envy, but while traveling a few weeks back, I couldn’t help but admire another man’s rickety Nissan Altima.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
He writes, for example, that the guitarist James Blood Ulmer plays “shrill, disjointed fragments, nervous bits and rickety pieces tied together by a staggered but wryly swinging thematic sensibility.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
And it’s a much more rickety machine than it first appeared.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2025
A two-story Craftsman ADU in Hollywood — formerly a rickety garage — is designed to provide office space, a gym and housing while preserving a lush garden.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025
The original Watson and Crick model of DNA, with its hammered metal plates and rickety rods twisting precariously around a steel laboratory stand, is housed behind a glass case.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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