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
“They really sound like this out-of-tune rabble, and you hear what maybe other people might have heard,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
Steve Clarke's side looked like a disorganised rabble just waiting to be put out of their misery.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
Pakistan became a rabble, beset by misfields and overthrows, while six home bowlers conceded more than 100 runs.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
‘It needs more to make a king than a piece of elvish glass, or a rabble such as this. Why, any brigand of the hills can show as good a following!’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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 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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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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