rickety
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The country’s rickety electric grid is entering the hottest months of the year with a record-setting amount of new power generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
I’m not one for vehicular envy, but while traveling a few weeks back, I couldn’t help but admire another man’s rickety Nissan Altima.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Hopeless but hearty, the Lakers forged ahead Thursday, and still clung to a one-point lead midway through the third quarter when the rickety wheels came completely off.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
And it’s a much more rickety machine than it first appeared.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025
Pong tracked Yai and Yord to a rickety table squeezed between two other vendors.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
The evening’s ricketier segments involved Ms. LuPone and Mr. Patinkin’s headlong dive into the emotional thickets of two classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals: “South Pacific” and “Carousel.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2011
Well, a big ship, an uncommonly bad sort of railway car, and the ricketiest little buggy that ever a man trusted his life to.
From Dr. Wortle's School by Trollope, Anthony
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