as in guard
a person or group that watches over someone or something
set out a picket to watch the camp
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Recent Examples of picket
Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2025
Throughout the past three months, SAG-AFTRA has held intermittent pickets at several of the video game companies’ Los Angeles offices, including WB Games and Disney Character Voices.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2024
Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
For days, workers picketed outside of the historic Miller Brewing buildings on West State Street and received the support of other labor organizations such as the Wisconsin AFL-CIO.
—Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Costco Teamsters have already participated in practice pickets, but none have taken place in Texas.
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Their offenses range from misdemeanor counts of demonstrating or picketing to felonies that include assaulting officers and civil disorder.
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Miami guard Haley Cavinder, coming off a 27-point performance against Florida State, went 4-of-15 against Notre Dame’s stifling defense and managed only eight points.—
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Three other prison guards, including Michael Mashaw, Michael Fisher and David Walters, were charged with lesser manslaughter offenses.—
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Fortunately, Congress had the foresight to understand both the importance of the service and the potential dangers of executive meddling, and so in 1970 walled it off from overt presidential meddling.—
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Different run options offer a variety of adventure, but the classic is a 17-mile portion through the Rio Grande Gorge, also dubbed the Taos Box because it is walled by black basalt cliffs.—
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The doctor was grazed by a bullet, and the nurse, the custodian and the two wounded officers were hospitalized in stable condition, Barker said.—
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The shock announcement — which is sure to shake and, indeed, stir the industry — was made Thursday, alongside the news that long-time producers and custodians of 007, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, would be stepping back.—
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Twenty years after Marilyn’s murder, John met the warden of the O’Daniel Unit, where the women’s death row is housed.—
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Seven prison employees, including former warden Randall Hepp, have been charged in the death of Maier.—
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The company archive preserves sketches, photographs and a collection of shoes with the Ballerina by Ferragamo logo.—
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But Trump could succeed at today’s more limited and more vital undertaking: upholding a balance of power that preserves that order’s essential achievements against Eurasian aggressors determined to tear them down.—
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The fee for the event is $6 per person and is limited to a total of 25 children, who must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.—
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If the material is not removed or relocated to an adults-only section within 60 days, the parent or guardian can sue the library.—
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The result is an epic tale of androids and AI warring in the aftermath of human civilization.—
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Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions.—
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Recreation areas onboard the sentinels can also function as an underwater laboratory.—
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An American flag stands like a sentinel on a flagpole beside the Capitol under an ominously gray sky.—
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“Picket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picket. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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