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
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
But her conceit that the Inter-Con’s trajectory can constitute, as the book’s subtitle asserts, “a people’s history of Afghanistan,” is rickety at best.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
The wood stairs are damp and rickety, but Babs plummets down them, hanging on to the railing, occasionally calling for me to hurry.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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