as in guard
a person or group that watches over someone or something
set out a picket to watch the camp
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Recent Examples of picket
Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
Ports on strike Workers picket outside of the APM container terminal at the Port of Newark in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.
—Sara Salinas, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
Kate Gibson, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
About 270 members of Teamsters Local 283 walked out early Wednesday morning and began picketing outside the refinery's Toronto Avenue entrance.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Economists say that a short-term strike will not have major consequences of consumers, but a picket longer than a week or two could impact products from bananas to cars.
—Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
Ports on strike Workers picket outside of the APM container terminal at the Port of Newark in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.
—Sara Salinas, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
Verb
Workers picket outside the APM container terminal at the Port of Newark in Newark, N.J. on Oct. 1, 2024.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
About 270 members of Teamsters Local 283 walked out early Wednesday morning and began picketing outside the refinery's Toronto Avenue entrance.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
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Matchup to watch: Oregon State left guard Joshua Gray vs. SJSU defensive lineman Soane Toia.Christian Vieyra, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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The Los Angeles Lakers will send guard Bronny James to their G-League affiliate beginning Saturday, per ESPN.Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The reception area was walled with Despont’s immense paintings of imagined planets and seemed designed to be grand and imposing.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 July 2024
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Instead of walling yourself off, make like a detective and learn more about what’s intriguing you.Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2024
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This poses a serious challenge to the custodians of the existing system of national security policymaking: the uniformed military and the civil service that make up the vast majority of people tasked with overseeing any president’s agenda.Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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The screenplay by Tom DeNucci (Vault) follows Rickey, a high school custodian whose world is rocked when his girlfriend, Kelly, is selected to play hockey for Team USA and compete in the World Games, thus leaving him behind.Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
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Prosecutors say Allen actually confessed over 60 times to the killings while in prison, to his wife, his mother, family members, the prison warden, the psychologist who treated him in prison, other prison employees and other inmates.Zoe Sottile, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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Her attorneys have filed a motion accusing the prison warden of disregarding a lawful order by not releasing her yet.Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2024
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Both great powers and smaller states know by now that the best way to deal with Trump is to shower him with pomp and circumstance, abstain from fact-checking him in public, make flashy but token concessions, and remain secure that by and large their core interests will be preserved.Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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Jewish pioneers’ history here has been preserved at Leadville’s Temple Israel, built in 1884 for a community that then numbered some 400 and contributed to business and municipal life.James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
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In the older strata, the animals were preserved in three dimensions, often in sleeping positions or in nests, or as a guardian of nests, a predator attacking a mammal, or even dinos locked in a fight.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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In these accounts parents act as guardians and the children are the beneficiaries until the child reaches the age of majority (usually 18, but sometimes 21) in their state.Stephanie Dhue,Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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His latest is a comedy-drama about family warring over matters of inheritance.Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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The 2025 budget is the first real domestic test for the PM, who has inherited something of a poisoned chalice, with France’s fiscal challenges and warring political establishment providing the backdrop to the new government after several months of political uncertainty in the country.Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
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Seems dolphins are one of the major biological sentinels of our plastic pollution.Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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But it’s had many lives: a residence for noble families, a Nazarene college, a sentinel of resilience that resisted Napoleonic invasions and endured the dark days of Nazi rule.Ann Abel, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Picket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picket. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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