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mob

[mob] / mɒb /




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People such as Berenger, who have felt most acutely the loneliness of the human condition, are best equipped to endure it, inured as they are to the pain of standing apart from the mob.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

I used to mob all throughout Carson, eating Hawaiian food.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Vincent Pastore, the actor best known for mob enforcer-turned-informant Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's hit series "The Sopranos," has died at the age of 80, his manager told AFP on Saturday.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Uniformed marksmen spray the mob with cold water.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

Some were lucky and gave the mob the slip.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

In Belfast itself, local communities have gathered en masse to support their immigrant neighbors, whether by hiding them from roving mobs or raising money to repair their homes and businesses.

From Slate Jun. 15, 2026

The name suggests altitude, and this whitewashed village of barely 2,000 in the Algarve region is only a half-hour’s drive inland from the beach town of Albufeira and its package-tour mobs but feels centuries away.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

Duer was dragged to the gaol on March 23, trailed by mobs of creditors, including members of the city’s most prominent families.

From Barron's Mar. 1, 2026

Although mobs of reporters also circled the brothers’ resentencing hearings in Van Nuys this year, Thursday’s parole hearing was a much more solemn and quiet affair.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2025

Mobs ... mobs of policemen—everything but England was in the hands of mobs, mobs, mobs.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Fans mobbed an airport to jeer him as he boarded a private jet bound for LSU.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

As the majority of the 80,000 fans went wild, Mexico's players mobbed the Wolves striker, the achievement sunk in for Jimenez, who was then in tears.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

Performing her routine from sophomore year, Chiles closed the meet with a 9.950 and held back tears while getting mobbed by her teammates.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2026

The student body collectively sighed “Alas, this too,” but then mobbed the dorms anyway, cheering and hugging fearlessly with unmasked smiles.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

“How do you know we won’t all be mobbed as we get on the boat?”

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

But as any financial news reader knows, investors have been mobbing the exits of nontraded private credit funds in the past month.

From Barron's Mar. 19, 2026

But Leonard came through, his teammates mobbing him after the shot in celebration.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2025

The media's pursuit of Amy Winehouse is one of the main themes of the film, with paparazzi shown camping outside her home and mobbing her in the street.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2024

Newsom’s office declined to identify which Target the encounter occurred at, to keep the media from mobbing the store.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2024

The first few knelt and kissed the scythes’ rings—and once the others saw that this was for real, they surged forward, mobbing the scythes.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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