stampede
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Stanford and MIT graduates are doing just fine, but a stampede of students into this major over the last two decades produced more coders than companies need.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
A scare occurred Saturday at Los Angeles Southwest College in San Pedro, where a loud noise triggered a stampede out of the stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
At his own stampede speech, Hogan called separatism "a poison" dividing families across the province.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Then, right behind them, a stampede of men in UFC T-shirts: the Running of the Bros.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
With a roar, the trickle of fleeing theatergoers suddenly became a stampede.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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The stampedes have been so intense that a number have been forced to institute caps on daily withdrawals.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
Deadly stampedes and crowd crushes are a common occurrence at big Indian gatherings and religious festivals.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025
The deafening roar of the aircraft startled nearby livestock, sending cattle into panicked stampedes.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
Human nature hasn’t changed enough since then to shield masses of people from being seduced and intimidated into servility and herd-like stampedes.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
Hale toiled day and night for a pittance; he rode through storms—hail, lightning, sand—and survived stampedes, guiding the cattle into smaller and smaller circles before they could trample him.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Consumers have stampeded toward protein, and food-industry giants are chasing them with new product innovations.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
Attendees stampeded, pushing and shoving and yelling as if there were one cake, not 1,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
“Zootopia 2” has already stampeded past $1 billion to surpass its predecessor, and the awards nominations have just begun slithering in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
“All people are fallible, even a great president like Roosevelt. He got stampeded by the hysteria of the time, the racism of the time. And he signed Executive Order 9066,” Takei said.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024
I was in something of a bind, for I really could not say—could not allow myself to be stampeded into saying—that I was a Christian.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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And what about running back Saquon Barkley, a stampeding MVP candidate last season who’s been a fraction of that historic player in 2025?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Life-sized animal puppets that have been stampeding through cities across Africa will make their way to London next month.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
The thud snapped Seattle’s streak of six consecutive series wins, as the Mariners dropped three of four to a stampeding Twins team that has won 15 of their last 17 games.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
Beauty-store barbarian Sephora tweens stampeding through skin-care aisles and slathering their baby faces in retinol?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
This was one of the stampeding Clock Watchers they’d spotted from Mr. Archie’s window earlier.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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