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
  • This time it was set in a fantasy world where the player controls an elf whose race is fighting off hordes of otherworldly monsters.
    Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • After walking the red carpet, Elordi and Isaac gamely stopped for selfies and autographs with the hordes of fans outside the theater.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 30 Aug. 2025
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  • About 20,000 university students, throngs of enthusiastic visiting alumni, and the bustling tourist traffic ensure Boone has no slow season.
    Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, this stat includes the myriad styles of chardonnay, even if our collective imagination pictures throngs of stereotypical oaky chard drinkers clinking glasses while snacking on sticks of butter.
    Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Getty Images Warmer temperatures in the English Channel, where the Paluel plant draws from, mean that conditions for jellyfish reproduction are far easier, and there are more swarms present in the water to potentially disrupt the energy network.
    Theo Burman Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The image portrays a man battling over food scraps with swarms of flies indifferent to their invasion of his territory.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Today's solar companies are turning to flocks of sheep to trim grass and control weeds under solar panels.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Keen observers may witness small flocks of Phalaropes swimming in dizzy circles in the quiet ponds.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But tennis fashion contains multitudes.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But the English actor's career contains multitudes.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Huffman, 61, has been an advocate of strong climate change and environmental protection policies since his state Assembly tenure from 2006 to 2012, and was a member of the Marin Municipal Water District for a dozen years before that.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The oldest neighborhood in Miami, Coconut Grove is a sedate enclave that hugs Biscayne Bay about a dozen miles from South Beach—but up to an hour by car during peak traffic—with the iconic Vizcaya Museum and Gardens as its cultural and architectural center.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That backup has since grown into a hundreds-strong campaign to refute the DHS allegations, which supporters call a resurgence of anti-Muslim fearmongering that has persisted across party lines since the 9/11 attacks 24 years ago this month.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The signatories — which included the likes of EV manufacturers Volvo and Polestar, as well as material suppliers, battery manufacturers and grid operators — said the introduction of the target had already triggered hundreds of billions of euros in new investment.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Federal agents stopped three boats that were en route to South Florida from the Bahamas and were smuggling large loads of cocaine and dozens of Chinese migrants last week, according to court documents.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • On top of that, the humanoid handled different types of dishwasher loads, from dishes to glasses, adapting itself to execute the task with perfection.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025

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