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noun

ˈti-kət How to pronounce ticket (audio)
Definition of ticketnext
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as in check
a small sheet of plastic, paper, or paperboard showing that the bearer has a claim to something (as admittance) only people with tickets will be allowed past the front gates

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as in label
a slip (as of paper or cloth) that is attached to something to identify or describe it the price on the ticket is $20 more than the advertised price

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as in access
the means or right of entering or participating in people to whom a green card represents a ticket to a better life

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as in key
something that allows someone to achieve a desired goal that entry-level job could be her ticket to a career in big-time advertising

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verb

as in to label
to attach an identifying slip to the attendant quickly ticketed my coat and handed the claim stub back to me

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Recent Examples of ticket
Noun
The lone winning ticket was sold at a gas station in Quincy, Illinois. — Mike Toole, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Two additional tickets sold in California and Maryland matched all five white balls and won $1 million each, according to Powerball. — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
Gilberto Mora, the rising Mexican teenage star, was also ticketed for the All-Star Game for a second straight year. — Tom Bogert, New York Times, 28 July 2026 The Wasserman report specifically argues that rights holders should move beyond occasional studies and build systems that continually capture women’s feedback on ticketing, concessions, safety, content and community programming. — Jacques Ledbetter, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for ticket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ticket
  1. check
  2. label
  3. access
  4. key
  5. mark
  6. pass
  7. door
  8. gateway
Noun
  • Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said an adult woman and a teenage boy were found dead inside a Martha Lane home after a well-being check was requested by another member of the household.
    — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • And Pereyra scored again on another assist from Caldeira in the 89th minute; that one needed a VAR check to count.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of check
Noun
  • Where the model has broken down is when departures happened without an anchor — when members left the group itself rather than just the label, or when a member’s exit was involuntary or acrimonious rather than mutually agreed.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Hundreds of pages of grand jury transcripts portray Tupac Shakur's shooting as a culmination of a longstanding feud between rival record labels Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records and rival gang sects Mob Piru and South Side Compton Crips.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of label
Noun
  • The department urged residents to secure access points to crawlspaces and to remove anything that would attract the coyote from the outside of their homes.
    — Alys Martinez, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Authorities have limited or restricted access to another 123 sites because of environmental conditions or obstacles that could hinder an evacuation in the event of a wildfire.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of access
Noun
  • The haunting 56-second clip begins with a theater curtain opening to reveal a nearly empty stage with just a piano and the C key playing repeatedly by itself.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Once a website sets a session cookie, the visiting browser must send a form of the cookie that’s signed with the key stored in the silicon.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of key
Verb
  • The agency’s decision to make the videos public comes almost exactly a month after the encounter, which marked the third shooting involving Oakland police this year and at least the seventh since 2023.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The Friday after the event is September 11th, marking the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of mark
Noun
  • Tristan Gunn caught the touchdown pass, and back-up quarterback Cade DePriest also had a touchdown pass to Smith Lessard.
    — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026
  • All fell incomplete, including a pass near the goal line that was broken up by San Francisco rookie Ephesians Prysock.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of pass
Noun
  • The luxury pods — complete with lie-flat beds and sliding privacy doors — could be entirely off-limits when departure day rolls around, sitting completely empty at 35,000 feet.
    — Edward Russell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Community health workers who go door to door face risks of their own.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of door
Noun
  • Flores is known for its colorful volcanic lakes and as a gateway to Komodo National Park, home of the largest lizards on Earth.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • De Niro and the Kaiser Estate were the gateways to the film’s unique structure of simultaneously telling the story of Vito’s ascension and Michael’s descension and the death of the Corleone family his father had built.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
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“Ticket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ticket. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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