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 There’s an athleticism and a cheekiness to the Hoggett school of stage movement — the street is always present, along with pinches of parkour, blended with elements of more traditional dance that would probably make a real posse of youths roll their eyes. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 That’s also the case with a pair of posse cuts with artists boasting different specialties. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025 Williams brought a small posse and sported a yellow shorts and blazer set. Anika Reed, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025 Now there’s a posse chasing her. Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for posse
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entourage
Noun
  • In the crush of Crystal’s enormous entourage of footballers, he was swept into a scrum of black shoulders.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The costumed entourage will make their way through Jefferson Street venues like Foy, Taylors, Electric Lime, Experts Only and SportClub.
    Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Posse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posse. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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