bevies

plural of bevy
as in hordes
a large group of people or things
usually singular
A bevy of girls waited outside.

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Recent Examples of bevies The soliders are baking in heat, rotating in and out with bevies of law enforcement from multiple agencies sweeping the area. Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Reserve a table at Agricola for a grown-up, farm-to-table meal, or follow the hordes of students for a hoagie at Olives.
    Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Why, for example, have some humanoid robot makers announced overly optimistic deployment targets and boosted production capacity well ahead of specific humanoid robot safety standards, high reliability, decent battery life, or demand for hordes of humanoids?
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The throngs of young women and the inclusiveness and positivity of it was just mind-blowing.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Saturdays for the throngs, rain or shine.
    Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For instance, last year, South Korean researchers developed tiny robot swarms that used magnetic fields to achieve tasks like transporting objects and unclogging tubes.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Large flocks of birds — or swarms of bats or insects — at the right altitude and speed reflect enough energy to appear on radar much like a storm.
    Brandi D. Addison, The Providence Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The mass deployment of technologies that these minerals make possible—fleets of electric cars; flocks of wind turbines; a cleaner energy grid—may be imperative if our society is to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and thereby avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change.
    Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Large flocks of birds — or swarms of bats or insects — at the right altitude and speed reflect enough energy to appear on radar much like a storm.
    Brandi D. Addison, The Providence Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Scholars intuited a link between the celestial and earthly multitudes.
    Greg Grandin September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Full elections incorporate a multipage ballot with not only all the candidates and positions for one to select but multitudes of special propositions, new laws and extra items to vote on.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Leslie Cheek’s formerly private estate opened as a public garden and fine art center in 1960 and today is host to nearly a dozen gardens surrounding the family’s Georgian mansion, which has become a museum.
    Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, in Washington state, dozens of public health workers could be affected by the shutdown.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • More than 100 international TV series and formats, animation, feature films and documentaries in various stages of the production cycle will be pitched to hundreds of top execs this week in the Eternal City, underscoring the growing influence of the pre-Mipcom boutique event.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
  • It’s called permafrost, and in central Alaska just south of the Arctic circle, this ice-cold layer reaches hundreds of feet below the tundra.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • This dual-purpose design requires exceptional stiffness, vibration control, and precision engineering, allowing heavy highway loads and high-speed rail traffic to share the same structure safely.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Same question, loads of responses.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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