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.
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Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bevies
Noun
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According to reporting from the New York Times, the England National Team is known to draw hordes of fans and journalists during the tournament.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
9 June 2026
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The venue only seats 2,600, so hordes of fans queued up for the standby list in Riverside Park before parking themselves behind bullpens.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
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After the final buzzer confirmed the Knicks' 94-90 victory over the San Antonio Spurs at Texas' Frost Bank Center on Saturday, June 13, throngs of people sporting blue and orange flocked to the streets of all five boroughs.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
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All the while, Upper West Side locals walked their little white dogs and hauled Fairway groceries past the throngs, looking confused.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
Noun
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Imagine combat choreographed by ants, swarms of elbows and legs scrabbling to emerge victorious.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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The government has a program to breed sterile male flies and drop swarms of them from planes to mate with wild females, which kept screwworm contained at the southern end of Panama for decades.—
Jeffrey Collins,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
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The two other flocks got up fast and took off across the lake, well out of range.—
Anton Money,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
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Looking for more ways to entice flocks of birds to your yard?—
Brittany VanDerBill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 May 2026
Noun
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Yes, dear reader, the Knicks game was playing at the Chanel dinner—fashion people contain multitudes!—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
9 June 2026
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But there are multitudes of opinions on what to do.—
Seth Emerson,
New York Times,
8 June 2026
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Businesses in Geneva were boarded up and hundreds of riot police were deployed in the streets over concerns about violence.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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New York City exploded with joy on Saturday night, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets after the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA finals.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
15 June 2026
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The initial system, named Eos, serves as a large-scale prototype designed to achieve steady-state fusion and test structural integrity under real operational loads.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
10 June 2026
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Einride's proprietary optimization software, Saga AI, is also being used to manage EV execution of select Amazon loads, including charging planning.—
Eric Rosenbaum,
CNBC,
10 June 2026
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Years of drought and high input costs drove ranchers to thin their herds, and analysts do not expect supply to recover before 2028.—
Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 June 2026
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Even without a major outbreak, containment efforts may cause the government to implement widespread cattle movement restrictions, limit border crossings or impose quarantine on certain herds, all of which would further impact the nation’s cattle numbers.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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“Bevies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bevies. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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