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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

A horde of dancers scatter beneath the vaulted belly of Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s recently opened David Geffen Galleries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

“There’s a horde headed this way, you need to grab what you can and get out of town.”

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Parts of Los Angeles are abuzz with hordes of figeater beetles, also known as green fruit beetles or Cotinis mutabilis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Well-heeled travelers are splurging to avoid hordes and hassles inside the airport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

Her face was sweet and tender, and, like Mr. Morton, she loved the vast hordes of unwashed and unwanted children more than she loved the cared-for ones.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

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