wicket

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Recent Examples of wicket Green Street’s impressive large white arches — referred to as wickets and reaching 25 feet in height — also incorporate design elements of Everything Changes with a Dream with maple-leaf patterns similar to the large sculpture. Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025 By the 20th over, Pakistan lost six wickets and the following overs continued to collapse the remaining order. Paras J. Haji, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Farrell, who is based in Toronto, knows his way between the wickets in cricket, a bat and ball game like baseball that is popular outside of North America, especially as a billion-dollar TV entertainment juggernaut via the Indian Premier League. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 1 Aug. 2025 Ireland got off to an impressive start with a 137-run opening wicket partnership between Ross Adair and skipper Paul Stirling, who made 52. Mark Gleeson, Reuters, 29 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for wicket
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Noun
  • Maintaining positive ties with South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung would continue the lattice-like foreign policy encouraged by Washington, one that favors multilateral cooperation among like-minded nations over bilateral dependence.
    Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The faith in order and proportion embodied in the Alhambra, the romance of modernity caught in the Eiffel Tower’s lattice of iron—these are not ideas imposed on buildings but ideals that the buildings themselves express, more lastingly than words can.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The front of the house features double doors and two floor-to-ceiling windows to bring in as much natural light as possible.
    Kaitlin Gates, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Prefab Customizable Tiny Home This cabin-style tiny home is easy to set up and primed to let in gorgeous natural light with a glass double door entrance and a number of windows surrounding the house.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The gas would fill a box that was divided in two by a wall with a trapdoor.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Concluding Thought Since a personal guarantee is a pledge of all one's worldly non-exempt assets to back the underlying loan, a personal guarantee is basically a financial noose that one puts their head into and then waits to see if the trapdoor opens.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • According to Costa, a preliminary investigation found that the victim was delivering mail to the residence when a 5-year-old pit bull forced the storm door open and attacked him.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
  • Ralph rang the bell and when the door opened, Lester, who is white, fired a handgun at him through the glass of the storm door, per a probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The entrance to the car park even passes under a portcullis and guests’ bags go through an X-ray machine hidden in the rock-face.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • Yes, that Palazzo di Amore, the same opulent megamansion where Twitch superstar Kai Cenat has been livestreaming with a revolving door of A-list guests since September.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The space between them, however, has been a revolving door of restaurants over that time.
    Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Wicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wicket. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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