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"A wild horde" had "deliberately" set fire to the 143-year-old building, said Maurice Barate, the prefect for the Haute-Vienne department.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

An armada of monster-pirates, the Kakamora — think coconut-flavored Gremlins — are a hectic horde with nice textures when the camera holds on them for longer than two seconds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Mick Jagger and Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías were forced to fight through a horde of journalists and tourists just to get to the chapel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

The horde was valued at $64.14 billion as of May 1.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

It was then approaching evening and Brian knew they would need a shelter of some kind and a fire, before dark and the evening horde of insects found them.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

That night, a million hushed “sorry!’s” could be heard throughout the auditorium as hordes of alternatively inclined women — because there were mostly women — flattened themselves to move through their row.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Pricey options to escape airport hordes and hassles are multiplying as affluent travelers seek more comfort and less friction without shelling out for a private jet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

In the family zone, an area accessible to all and where Joshua got lost in Lego, there is a sensory room designed to offer some refuge from the hordes.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Whether or not hordes of international fans will take over I-95 on foot to get to the stadium is another question entirely.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

He was not set upon by unreasonable hordes or ambushed by sneaky types.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Like these commodities, data siphoned by tech companies from COVID-19 screening may be the next asset to be horded and exploited.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2020

He got it from a fellow inmate, and he horded it under his bed. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2015

Outside the walls of Harrenhal, a wolf horded long and loud.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

What if some luckless farmer should have his home burned from around him or his horded tobacco and corn destroyed?

From The Nightrider's Feud by Walter C. McConnell

Their attics were museums where were horded every sort of object against the time when it might be needed.

From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Sara Ware Bassett

Another market force at play is consumer behavior, in this case, hording.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

Cole has refused medical attention and ignored his personal hygiene, hording food and living in a darkened cell with little to no communication with staff or fellow prisoners, his attorneys told the panel.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

That could lead to some destructive outcomes if competing countries start collecting and hording arable land, Lazard said.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 2022

Can you imagine if every rich person was so focused on making the world a better place, instead of either hording their wealth or squandering it on fancy junk and stoking their egos.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2018

I would rather be an automaton in a factory than a paper pusher or a money hording entrepreneur.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills