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picket

[pik-it] / ˈpɪk ɪt /


NOUN
person who demonstrates for cause
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Salud Garcia, 80, walks a picket line to fight for higher wages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

You would like to get married, have 2.5 kids and buy a house with a white picket fence.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Union members last week held an information picket outside a Blue Jays baseball game in Toronto to highlight a call for all work-related duties to be paid, including boarding, delays and safety checks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

This perception of economic abundance spread in the 1950s with the post-WWII boom, perhaps best symbolised through the growth of single-family homes adorned with white picket fences.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

His head was leaned down over their picket fence and he was chawing on bunches of flowers, uprooting most of Mrs. Highgate’s black-eye Susies.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

And unions have been printing and distributing signs, organizing pickets and mega-rallies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

While some earlier protests did turn violent, she wrote, recent pickets outside Portland’s ICE headquarters have featured lawn chairs and low energy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

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

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

Pauline was leaning idly on the fence, her arms resting on the crossrail between the pickets.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

A Jerusalem cafe picketed for weeks by observant Jews said Thursday it had agreed to shut on the Sabbath, bowing to demands despite counter-protests by secular Israelis.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

Steve Lubetkin was one of the comedians who picketed alongside Letterman, Dreesen and Leno, and when the strike ended, he panicked after he couldn’t get stage time in the following weeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

“We have picketed for six months without interference,” she said.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Schneider faces misdemeanor charges of stalking and targeted residential picketing in American Fork and similar charges in Provo, where he went after the Bricks & Minifigs corporate offices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

Ministers really didn't want to do that with NHS staff picketing outside the parliament.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

Probably not, unless you have plans to stay at the Virgin hotel or visit its casino, in which case it’s possible you might encounter picketing workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024

She knew what she was getting into, because she had been imprisoned for picketing when she lived in London several years before.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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