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posse

[pos-ee] / ˈpɒs i /
NOUN
vigilantes
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You wouldn't see such gesticulation from a posse of policemen directing traffic at a busy crossroads.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

But for now, no other posse of stocks has come to take their place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

His law firm had invented “Mass Torts Made Perfect” and ran it as a conference for elite plaintiffs’ attorneys nationwide to rub elbows and strategize, making him the unofficial president of the polo club posse.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

At the end of the day, a real-life stan of a pop star wants the same things that the people in Oliver’s fictional posse do: to have their existence validated by celebrity.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2025

Valerie, who’d joined the campaign earlier in the fall as one of Barack’s advisers, was there, along with Susan and my posse of girlfriends and their husbands and children.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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