wicket

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Recent Examples of wicket When the left-hander came to the wicket for the title of ICC world champion, Australia were 76 for 3. Tim Ellis, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024 Right Now By Jordan Thomas Forbes Staff Mitchell Santner and Ajaz Patel outshone the India spinners with 28 wickets between them. Tim Ellis, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024 But the underdogs completely dominated Australia to win by eight wickets and power into the final against either New Zealand or West Indies. Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 His 37 and three wickets were noted but ultimately not match-winning statistics. Tim Ellis, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for wicket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wicket
Noun
  • John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer figured out that at low temperatures, a material’s jittery atomic lattice quiets down, so more delicate effects come through.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Shigeru Ban has experimented with wooden lattices, vaulting, curved planes, grids, and steel-free joinery using only pegs and dowels.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Fans desperate to see the game – and other big names, including Mike Tyson and LL Cool J – attempted to break through double doors that opened inward as opposed to swinging outward, and a massive crowd swell rushed toward the entrance.
    Tracy Wright, Fox News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The double doors have a rattan insert that serves as a decorative detail while also concealing the objects inside.
    Rachel Trujillo, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His vision of Treehouse Town is brimming with imaginative contraptions, like crow’s nests for viewing, air trams, rope swings, trapdoors and sycamore slides.
    Megan Gambino, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The pain can also linger for a long time, as anyone from Wrexham unfortunate enough to be inside Shrewsbury’s then relatively new home in April 2008, as the Welsh club were nudged towards the EFL relegation trapdoor, will surely attest.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Ralph rang the bell and when the door opened, Lester, who is white, fired a handgun at him through the glass of the storm door, per a probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The storm door is wide-open with a very active storm track forecast to impact Northern California.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Medieval amenities include a moat, two watchtowers and two gates, a drawbridge, an underground cave (complete with a Jacuzzi!), trap doors, and a genuine portcullis (a metal-and-wood gate typically seen in medieval fortresses).
    Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 20 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • The Raiders’ revolving door of a front office during this span also didn’t have a quarterback plan fully in place.
    Vincent Frank, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Washington has not solved the problem of the revolving doors between Big Pharma and government regulators.
    David Marks, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2024

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“Wicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wicket. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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