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picket

[pik-it] / ˈpɪk ɪt /


NOUN
person who demonstrates for cause
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Huerta leapt into the fray, leading picket lines and marches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Members of the union in Taoyuan have "obtained the legal right to conduct a strike and establish strike picket lines", union secretary Chen Yen-kai told a news conference.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Salud Garcia, 80, walks a picket line to fight for higher wages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

You would like to get married, have 2.5 kids and buy a house with a white picket fence.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Finally, in late March, black ministers from the group not only gave their blessing to the action but joined students and other activists on the picket lines.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

Despite some arrests, the authorities seem unable to prevent the pickets.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

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

I felt her gaze pierce through the white clapboard and the pink wallpaper roses and uncover me, crouching there behind the silver pickets of the radiator.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

A Jerusalem cafe picketed for weeks by observant Jews said Thursday it had agreed to shut on the Sabbath, bowing to demands despite counter-protests by secular Israelis.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

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

“Most of the Long Knives’ horses were picketed there.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III

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

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

The picketing machinists benefited from a strike fund while they were off the job but were under increasing pressure as healthcare coverage lapsed for some families.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

The union said it was preparing to challenge the injunction, but said it agreed to abide by the law on picketing.

From BBC ● May 31, 2025

But as the picketing showed no signs of stopping and as the messages on the placards grew more militant, the president became increasingly irritated.

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


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