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horde

[hawrd, hohrd] / hɔrd, hoʊrd /


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Police received multiple complaints as the horde of riders moved on to Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

The regular crowd shots of the waiting room too often reduce the afflicted into a zombie-like horde bent on making life more difficult for our beloved medical staff.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 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

The latest securities filing shows Strategy purchased its horde of 713,502 tokens for an average price of $76,052 each, or $54.26 billion in total.

From Barron's Feb. 2, 2026

“Not now, we got a horde bearing down on us. I reckon we've dawdled long enough.”

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

The production value is high, storytelling is captivating and hordes of fellow inmates get involved as actors and crew.

From BBC Jul. 26, 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

The hordes of Luce haters might not matter.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

Day by day now, the hordes of workers poured in.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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

What if some luckless farmer should have his home burned from around him or his horded tobacco and corn destroyed?

From The Nightrider's Feud by Walter C. McConnell

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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