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
R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
If not, pickets at school sites and another rally will follow Friday.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Christina Fan, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
Sharp HealthCare workers represented by the same coalition of unions will picket from Wednesday through Friday.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Specifically, the union is asking for a 4% pay increase each year for four years, French told The Beacon-News during the picket.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
If not, pickets at school sites and another rally will follow Friday.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Verb
Day 8 of picketing More than 100 NYSNA nurses were back out in the brutal cold to picket for an eighth day since the strike started last week.
—Christina Fan, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
Sharp HealthCare workers represented by the same coalition of unions will picket from Wednesday through Friday.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picket
Noun
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The Magic guard opened 3-for-4 from beyond the arc, hitting two 3-pointers in the final three minutes of the second quarter.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Much like former head coach Tom Thibodeau, Mike Brown prefers to use McBride off the ball as a spot-up shooter — but also as a guard-to-guard screen setter.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
28 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The interiors are timbered wall to wall, from chunky Lincoln Log-style beams to vertical beams cut with their natural edges left intact.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
23 Feb. 2026
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Goldsworthy had filled a gallery, wall to wall, with a sea of stones, ranging from pebbles to small boulders.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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The midcentury abode was transferred to custodians of the McCann Trust that holds the property in 2022 and, after hitting the market April 10 for nearly $3 million, a contingent offer for its sale has already been accepted.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
30 Apr. 2026
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Animal care specialists, groundskeepers, patrol officers, seasonals, aides, and custodians represented by Teamsters Local 727 are seeking pay increases and minimum staffing guarantees from the Chicago Zoological Society, which operates the zoo.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
29 Apr. 2026
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In the letter accompanying Knight's warrant to the state prison warden, DeSantis appeared to mistakenly reference Hitchcock instead of Knight.—
CBS Miami Team,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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The most visible woman at the company, though, had long been Donaldson’s mother, Sue Parisher, a former military-prison warden who led the company’s HR department.—
Irin Carmon,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Significantly, both the ESPN and Roku deals preserve The CW’s right to sell ad time on those platforms.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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The Heat’s current preference to preserve significant 2027 cap space isn’t being made entirely based on the hope that one of the top potential free agents will opt for free agency in 2027.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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Time spent in hair, makeup and wardrobe count as work, and a parent or guardian must stay close to the child on set.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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The law also expands background checks for adults living with guardians and would create an independent advocate position in the Attorney General's Office to handle complaints and review child welfare practices.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
Verb
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With Khamenei’s regime, and his life, on the line, the resistance instinct must be warring with the survival instinct beneath that black turban.—
Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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Why the hell doesn’t war ever change?—
Jack King,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Their Tibetan ancestry dates back thousands of years to when they were bred as an interior sentinel in the Buddhist monasteries.—
Katelyn Chef,
Martha Stewart,
12 Apr. 2026
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Precedent for this idea comes from Poland, where many cities already use freshwater mussels as living sentinels of water quality, wired with sensors that register when the animals clamp their shells shut in response to pollutants.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Picket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picket. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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