as in swarm
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
a horde of mosquitoes hordes of tourists from the cruise ship crowded the shops and cafes
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Recent Examples of horde
Out went what was left of country-club Republicanism; in came the Fifth Avenue insurgent and his MAGA hordes.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Soon shoppers in two Southern states can join the hordes of fans who add ALDI finds to their carts each week.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
29 June 2026
There are hordes of mice and cockroaches in this backyard; the women flick them at each other and joke about a huge marijuana plant growing nearby.
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Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
The biggest swing the film makes story-wise is the running side plot about the horde of Buzzes that doesn’t intersect with the main story until the third act.
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Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
22 June 2026
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Soon shoppers in two Southern states can join the hordes of fans who add ALDI finds to their carts each week.
—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
29 June 2026
There are hordes of mice and cockroaches in this backyard; the women flick them at each other and joke about a huge marijuana plant growing nearby.
—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
The biggest swing the film makes story-wise is the running side plot about the horde of Buzzes that doesn’t intersect with the main story until the third act.
—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horde
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Their strategy focuses on low-cost drone swarms, maximizing pilot effectiveness.
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Every wedding, every cherry blossom season in Japan, every birth, reactor accidents too, swarms of insects, kittens playing with woolen balls, people disfigured by war, palm trees at sunset—five billion photos a day.
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Tour guides in tricorn hats and colonial garb brought throngs of tourists to sites along the Freedom Trail, including the Granary Burying Ground, the Old North Church, and Paul Revere’s home.
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Tomorrow may be even more surreal, with another day of oppressive heat and throngs of tourists in town to see what the president has billed as the biggest fireworks display in human history.
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The plebeians have plenty to be furious about, but their representatives, skilled at turning a crowd into a mob, seem hellbent on shoring up their own influence.
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Large-scale events involve tabletop exercises with law enforcement, fire departments, emergency managers and venue officials running through countless scenarios — evacuations, suspicious packages, drones and crowd surges.
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Neusch barged past the couple on the stairs and released a flock of insect drones from his leg pouch.
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Look, snakes of a feather flock together.
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With the end of the month fast approaching, the migrant exodus has continued as fear of further mob attacks spreads through poor neighborhoods and informal settlements.
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Irwin becomes entangled with the Russian mob after embarking on a get-rich-quick scheme to clean up the Gowanus Canal, and his former cop brother, Gary, is the only one who can get him out of trouble.
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“Horde.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horde. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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