as in noise
loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound
if all the racket on the stairs is any indication, someone must be moving into apartment 3B
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Recent Examples of racket
Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Kids’ rackets can be found for $30, but adult rackets start at around $50, with the best rackets costing $100-$300.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025
Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Noun
His challenges might include showing that Combs wasn’t running a criminal racket and, perhaps, sympathetically cross-examining his accusers.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Kids’ rackets can be found for $30, but adult rackets start at around $50, with the best rackets costing $100-$300.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
After endorsing Head tennis rackets his entire career, Murray this spring started using a Yonex racket.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racket
Noun
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Adverse weather and a steady stream of tariff headlines likely early into the quarter created a bunch of noise that could’ve dampened customer purchases.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
18 May 2025
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Kil noted that one of the features of the town hall remodel project will deaden the noise from the passing trains, which at times can drown out speakers during town meetings.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
18 May 2025
Verb
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With the birds chirping and flowers blooming, the apple trees are getting ready to create the fruit that goes into making your favorite ciders.—
Em Sauter,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Whose comeback chirps take the longest and aren’t funny?—
Jeremy Rutherford,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Cannes Market This wouldn’t be the first saber rattle from Trump that doesn’t come to pass as first mooted.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
5 May 2025
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On Tuesday, not so much, the Lakers showing their clear dominance in every area backed by a legendarily springtime loud home crowd that annually shakes, rattles and rolls.—
Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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To show that behind the wine glasses clinking in celebration, there are also tears, fears and moments of reckoning.—
Jessica Guerrieri,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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Applause and clinking glasses greeted each celebrity ascent up the Met’s iconic steps.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
7 May 2025
Noun
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The ensuing roar caused Bryson DeChambeau, standing on the 17th green, to reset his pre-shot routine.—
Justin Ray,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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On the drivable par-4 14th, Scheffler caused a roar in the crowd with an excellent tee shot to set up a short eagle putt.—
Troy Finnegan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
Verb
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Closer Shai Gilgeous-Alexander buried a soft turnaround seven seconds later for an 83-78 lead, sealing a two-possession advantage down the stretch of a game where most possessions clanked off iron.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
11 May 2025
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A couple of would-be interceptions that clanked off the hands of San Francisco defenders.—
Sam Farmer,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Much of the chatter leading up to the series has centered around the reception Soto will receive from the Yankees faithful.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2025
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The lounges sway to their usual rhythm of excited chatter, clinking glasses and former players recalling their eras.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
Verb
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One of our challenges was thinking up a good chinking method that wouldn’t take an entire month.—
Tasha Zemke,
Outside Online,
24 Oct. 2024
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But already chinks in the vault’s armor have appeared.—
Naomi Oreskes,
Scientific American,
17 Sep. 2024
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“Racket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racket. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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