as in entourage
a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person a popular teen and his ever-present posse of pals

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Recent Examples of posse And for wine enthusiasts, there’s a posse of new cowboys in town at Rodeo Hills. Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025 This one is still his best, a slow-burn Western that stars Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, and Richard Jenkins as a posse of men who hunt a group of indigenous savages. Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 May 2025 Sure, this group’s name is a punchline, lifted from a peewee soccer team that never won a game (the title doesn’t appear until the very end, immediately followed by a different name for this posse). Peter Debruge, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025 A lot of other people died, and no one — including Ellie — was in any kind of shape to form a posse. Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for posse
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Noun
  • Mansfield and her entourage were traveling from a nightclub performance in Biloxi, Miss. to New Orleans.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 29 June 2025
  • Some members of Juventus’ entourage, including players, were not aware they would be unveiled at a press conference before attending the event.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • By Monday evening, a fire crew of 183 succeeded in containing 30% of the fire.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2025
  • Lindholm says a few crew members boarded a small rescue boat that launched from the fourth deck.
    Jillian Frankel, People.com, 1 July 2025

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“Posse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posse. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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