rabble
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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
That must be a factor in their inconsistency, but I don't think it will matter here because Wolves have been such a rabble recently.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
Steve Clarke's side looked like a disorganised rabble just waiting to be put out of their misery.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
For an actor who has long leveraged his baby-faced looks to play everything from lustful teenagers and rabble rousers to narcos and soccer players, his portrayal of Andy marks a departure for the actor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
“What rantings?” the dwarf asked, toying with his rabble.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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These are sair times wi' me, gentlemen and neighbours! amaist as ill as at the aughty-nine, when I was rabbled by the collegeaners.*
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
In some of these works the hardships suffered by the rabbled priests of the western shires are set forth with a skill which irresistibly moves pity and indignation.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
Surely, it was said, a rabbled curate might well be left to the severe scrutiny of the sixty Inquisitors.
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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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
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
Hamilton insisted that the question, should be, "Approve or not approve the rabbling?"
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
One disadvantage of the reverberatory furnace is the fact that it is impossible to avoid the incursion of air during the manual rabbling action, and this tends to cool the furnace.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson
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