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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Khaleel Sayyed and Walter Bowe, X’s chief guards at the time, would corroborate that statement, as they were both arrested and detained on bogus charges in the days leading up to X’s murder.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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The supervisor gathered the employees up and was going to take shelter at a guard shack outside the warehouse but could not due to flying debris and sheet metal.Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 13 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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Third-party custodians are a growing business in Bitcoin, and these third parties manage your keys for you.Korok Ray, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Ultimately, a federal system that endows states with substantial authority can act as a powerful custodian of democracy, one that goes well beyond the mere involvement of state officials in the electoral system.Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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The accused include a nurse, a journalist, a prison warden, a local councillor, a soldier, lorry drivers and farm workers.Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
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Well, the wardens don’t have power beyond what the law says, right?Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
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In Trump’s second term, Hassett would join a White House seeking to preserve and expand its 2017 tax cuts at a time when deficit pressures are weighing on federal borrowing costs.Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
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In March of that year, as swarms of the butterflies appeared in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, the citizen scientists netted butterfly samples, then preserved them in an alcohol mixture and shipped them to Talavera’s lab.Saugat Bolakhe, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 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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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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Several warring factions exist within the Zone, as well as lone bandits and stalkers.Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Despite the many hands involved, this first episode of Dune: Prophecy makes the conservative choice to follow the Villeneuve visual template (if not the audio one) and build it out into a Game of Thrones–style series of warring houses and interstellar political intrigue.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Nov. 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 1 Dec. 2024.
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