rabble
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She called O'Neill's comments "outrageous" and the protesters a "rabble".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Meta is far from the only company trying to build quickly without inspiring too much input from the rabble.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
At times this season, Spurs have resembled an unmotivated rabble – which is why the frantic pumping of fists and wild celebrations also felt uncomfortable and, yes, embarrassing.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
Those belts, if you’ll remember, were the trigger for Meryl Streep’s Oscar-nominated speech about how her imperious fashion magazine editor in chief Miranda Priestly creates trends that trickle down to the rest of us rabble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
I was sure at any moment they were going to smoke us out and figure we were rabble, living on top of one another in a seventies junkbox down below.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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In the Western Lowlands, the beneficed clergy had been so effectually rabbled, that scarcely one of them had remained at his post.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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 bishops' carriages were stopped, and the prelates themselves rabbled on their way to the House.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green
Was it reasonable to ask her to mutilate her apostolical polity and her beautiful ritual for the purpose of conciliating those who wanted nothing but power to rabble her as they had rabbled her sister?
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Unhappily throughout a large part of Scotland the clergy of the Established Church were, to use the phrase then common, rabbled.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 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
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They had abolished patronage; they had sanctioned the rabbling of the episcopal clergy; they had refused to pass a Toleration Act.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
Of mechanically rabbling furnaces we may mention the O’Harra modified by Allen-Brown, the Hixon, the Keller-Gaylord-Cole, the Ropp, the Spence, the Wethey, the Parkes, Pearce’s “Turret” and Brown’s “Horseshoe” furnaces.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" 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
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