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
Daniel Berman,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Before Serena Williams picked up her racket at London’s Andy Murray Arena last week, two questions hung over her return to tennis.
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Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2026
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
3 Sep. 2019
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Noun
Features that once felt niche—recovery spaces, thermal experiences, fitness programming and racket sports facilities—are increasingly becoming central to luxury development strategies.
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Daniel Berman,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Before Serena Williams picked up her racket at London’s Andy Murray Arena last week, two questions hung over her return to tennis.
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Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2026
Verb
After endorsing Head tennis rackets his entire career, Murray this spring started using a Yonex racket.
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Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racket
Noun
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Rescue workers heard noises that raised the possibility that someone underneath was still alive, Espy told The Times.
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Ration food and water, listen for rescue calls and search for something near you to make noise.
Verb
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Sometimes crickets chirped in my head.
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As Photay, Shornstein—a master synthesist and producer—flits between atmospheric house, dubby breakbeat workouts, and chirping electro funk, building his songs’ arrangements into strange, angular shapes.
Noun
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Pygmy Rattlesnakes are small and colorful, around 15 to 20 inches in length, with a vertical pupil, thin tail, and tiny rattle.
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Elsewhere in the snippet of the music video, Latto could be seen walking around a white crib and viewing a scrapbook featuring a page with a rattle and dummy and a positive ClearBlue pregnancy test placed on top.
Verb
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There is the sound of laughter, clinking wine glasses, and lively conversations as everyone waits for the mystery wine tasting of the evening.
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Avtan often won’t tell Paz anything about the source or meaning of her many samples, which can take the form of fragmented dialogue and what sounds like clinking kitchenware.
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In the early afternoon, a roar ripped through the stifling Mississippi heat, as dozens of motorcycles leading the funeral procession rumbled into the church parking lot.
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Johnson’s first budget made the CARE pilot permanent and doubled staff positions in 2024, to roars of approval from his progressive base.
Verb
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Still, Devers got enough barrel on the ball to pull it down the right-field line and clank it off the foul pole, winning free chicken for those in attendance.
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The catcher also appeared to be looking for a breaking ball earlier in the second, allowing a fastball to clank off his glove and go to the backstop.
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In the last year or two, there was chatter and debate whether Messi would actually be selected to join the national team again.
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If circumstances had gone Spain’s way with more clinical finishing or a Cape Verde defender making a mistake, then the result would have been different and a lot of the chatter currently happening (including here) would likely not be happening.
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Many people watching the game on TV were surprised, since replays seemed to suggest Freuler had been offside before being clattered by Abunada.
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Below them, clattering on a dozen parallel tracks, the trains were coming and going, arriving and departing, thundering underground.
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“Racket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racket. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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