cattle

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Noun
  • There was little-to-no doubt Jurgen Klopp’s side were going to defeat Ralf Rangnick’s under-interim-management rabble that day.
    Carl Anka, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Somehow, this respectable foe of radicalism had organized the political realignment that broke up the Union, sustained the war that overthrew the South’s ruling class, and managed the struggle that emancipated its proletariat.
    Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • As is the case with the aesthetics of people, exquisite lines can be found on patrician and proletariat cars alike.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • As herds of people split off, additional Metra employees surrounded the station’s entrance.
    Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • If luck is on their side, a herd of elephants may appear, wading into the water to drink, bathe and cool off in the midday sun.
    Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Sometimes Evie imagined the land, the world, the city around her as a cartoon neighborhood, the houses’ edges elastic like balloons, their walls filling up and bloating and then, all at once, popping: ejecting out the riffraff and trash in a huff.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The first half of the film finds our riffraff joining forces to escape Valentina’s death trap; the second is a parable about mental illness where the metaphors take command over the plot.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • And sometimes the best care is not bringing in a bunch of — as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar put it — a throbbing scum of fame-hungry desperados.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2025
  • Vinegar is a great all-purpose cleaner and can cut through soap scum and dirt and fight stains.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • Trump retreated temporarily after his Liberation Day announcement triggered a rout in financial markets and suspended the reciprocal tariffs for 90 days to give countries a chance to negotiate.
    Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Washington has won two of their last three, including a 103-86 rout of the Chicago Sky.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • The economic downturn altered the way young people thought about farming.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There are people that put a lot of effort into the outcome of our games, in here and all over the place.
    David O'Brien, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a practical benefit to this, along with the synthetics’ super-strength; a story about aliens let loose on a vulnerable human populace would likely have to be a short one.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The broader populace is still seeing pay gains outpace inflation (although to a lesser extent than recent years).
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Cattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cattle. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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