picket

Owning a house with a white picket fence?

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Here people sell, picket, preach, protest, dine, sit and sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

A market in which private equity increasingly buys up single-family housing isn’t going to yield havens of picket fences and prosperity.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Matching the level of support at Wimbledon in 1973 will take some doing because, as in any workplace, there will be players prepared to cross a metaphorical picket line outside the entrance to Centre Court.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

“Tell me about suffrage; why you have opposed the president; the whole history of your campaign; why you picket; what you hope to accomplish by it.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Women played a vital role in the dispute, organising food collections, distributions and fundraising, organising pickets and speaking at rallies.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025

That’s the position workers promoted this week during pickets at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

The Network started a website highlighting workers’ claims about Royal India and has held periodic pickets outside its Kirkland location since April 2023.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

The NUM sent protesters - known as flying pickets - to disrupt and pressure working miners.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024

Buford rode out far enough to see the pickets for himself, then he rode back toward the green hills.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Less than three dozen people picketed outside of OpenAI’s offices, but the demonstration sparked a bitter feud on an effective altruist forum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

In 2023, they endured the dual writers’ and actors’ strikes, where many of them picketed alongside their more recognizable colleagues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

Workers picketed outside their newsroom in London to protest the proposed sale to Tortoise Media, arguing it had been “rushed through” without the support of the staff.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

They were known as "scabs" by striking miners, who picketed as they arrived at work.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024

The women who picketed were committed to the cause and proud of what they were doing.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Richard Scandaliato, president of San Pedro’s South Shores Community Assn., said the reversal was “unbelievable” after months of near-weekly picketing and hundreds of letters that neighbors wrote to state officials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

WGA West staffers also played a key role in the strike, as they too joined the picketing lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

The picketing machinists benefited from a strike fund while they were off the job but were under increasing pressure as healthcare coverage lapsed for some families.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

The union said it was preparing to challenge the injunction, but said it agreed to abide by the law on picketing.

From BBC ● May 31, 2025

This hasn’t stopped some believers—physicists included—from picketing high-energy laboratories like Fermilab; they believe that a high-energy collision could cause a spontaneous collapse of the vacuum.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife