mob
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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
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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
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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
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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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