horde
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Another horde, the Reapers, runs around shirtless to show off their thick black tattoos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
It was only a few days ago that the horde from the fjords was in Boston taking over the subway system before their team’s first match, a 4-1 victory over Iraq.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Delroy Lindo recently earned his first Academy Award nomination for his role in “Sinners” as Delta Slim, a blues musician who helps fight a vampire horde in a Mississippi juke joint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Lindo is up for best supporting actor at the Oscars this month for his role in “Sinners” as Delta Slim, a blues musician who helps fight a vampire horde in a Mississippi juke joint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Outside in the churchyard the leaderless horde did absolutely nothing to reorganize.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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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
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
Plus, there are fewer shopping malls to employ the vast hordes of teens during the summer months.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
The sun is blinding hot, but that has not deterred the tourist hordes from splashing about in the ocean.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
A family steps from the hordes to speak to the border guards.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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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
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Their chief places of resort, and where, during the inclemency of winter, they horded or housed together, were, Kirk Yetholm, Rothbury, Horncliff, Spittal, and Tweedmouth.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
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
Your aristocracy is a base imitation of our snobby, revelling in the heartless hording of gold, and vaunting of bad English.'
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton
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