hordes
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There’s only so much red diesel out there—a limited stock that now hordes of people will be chasing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Zone One” is a smart take on the shuffling hordes and pandemic survivors who try to take Manhattan back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Scotland will play Morocco in the city later and afterwards the hordes of fans that have called the city home for the past week or so are expected to head to Florida.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Whether or not hordes of international fans will take over I-95 on foot to get to the stadium is another question entirely.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
In the swampy streets there were the remains of furniture, animal skeletons covered with red lilies, the last memories of the hordes of newcomers who had fled Macondo as wildly as they had arrived.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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