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rabble

[rab-uhl] / ˈræb əl /


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Meta is far from the only company trying to build quickly without inspiring too much input from the rabble.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

People forget what a rabble United were when he took over as head coach in January and he has brought a bit of calmness to the club.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

Mr Holt said Mr Jones was "rabble rousing" a crowd which has been described as "tens of thousands" in size.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2024

“What rantings?” the dwarf asked, toying with his rabble.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

A form of notice was drawn up and served on every curate in the Western Lowlands who had not yet been rabbled.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

"It looks as though it had been rabbled up for the purpose," cried Hurst, in schoolboy phraseology, bending down and touching it gingerly with his finger.

From The Channings by Mrs. Henry Wood

The ores in this furnace should therefore be fed in at the colder end of the hearth and be gradually worked or "rabbled" forward to the firing end.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson

The Episcopal clergymen were rabbled throughout all the western shires.

From Claverhouse by Mowbray Morris

He thought that the rabbled curates had been hardly treated.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

Instead of expressing amused bewilderment at the peculiarity of fame--a strategy Colin Farrell has perfected--he was defiant, his Maximusian scowl declaring "How dare you be intrigued by me, ungrateful rabbling dogs!"

From Time Magazine Archive

It is then turned on full, and a violent boiling action is maintained without any rabbling.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

The method that occurred to me was the substitution of a small steam pipe in the place of the puddler's rabbling bar.

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles

I might have put it, ‘In the King’s name,’ but what I meant was that we are to proceed in decency and order—no unseemly rabbling, scuffling, or mischief making—otherwise ye have me to reckon with.

From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

There are several modifications of the reverberatory furnace in use, designed mechanically to effect the rabbling.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson


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