rickety
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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
He writes, for example, that the guitarist James Blood Ulmer plays “shrill, disjointed fragments, nervous bits and rickety pieces tied together by a staggered but wryly swinging thematic sensibility.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
Elsewhere, it was the Alan Carr show again, as the comedian walked along a rickety bridge over a river during the latest challenge, shrieking as he did so.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025
The Brewers’ bullpen was suddenly as rickety as the Dodgers’, and that was with Sasaki just spectating.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025
Possible translation: That rickety shutter on the living room window that always smacked against the house whenever the wind blew was gone.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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