mob

Example Sentences

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You want to collect data, search for market inefficiencies, embrace your inner contrarian, dig into game theory, study the wisdom of the crowd—and avoid that crowd like it’s a mob of Cameron Crazies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Her accent alternates mid-sentence from city gal to snidely British, Ida loudly accusing a mob boss of murdering women.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

Yet even as industrial police and officers in plain clothes arrived at the site, they were unable to extract him from the mob, he added.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

When the market mob is too greedy, or too afraid—and that is the essence of a huge move, up or down—options-centric investors look to buy on fear and sell on overconfidence.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

But now Stanton and Welles exited the carriage, headed into the mob, and vanished from sight.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson