en masse

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Recent Examples of en masse With Week 6 wrapping up across the NFL, the league has reached the point of the season where coaches start to get fired en masse. Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025 Shuford said that current actions risk not only failing to return furniture jobs en masse to the United States, but damaging the industry’s reputation overseas to the point that young people in Asia opt to work in call centers and electronics instead. Matt Egan, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025 The elder Mamdani grew up in Uganda, in East Africa, in a community of Ugandans of Indian descent, known as the Bayindi, who played a prominent role in the country until Idi Amin expelled them en masse in 1972. Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 The challenge today is that chatbots, which tend to work as billions of neurons connected together in dense layers, start firing en masse when the LLM is working on a response. Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for en masse
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Adverb
  • Self-care and skin care go hand in hand, something Vanessa Hudgens knows well.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The two often go hand in hand, with most people seeking both results.
    Tori Crowther, Allure, 15 Mar. 2023
Adverb
  • Proyecta is jointly organized by the Cannes’ Marché du Film and the San Sebastián Film Festival.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Over time, Southwestern could end up being the launch pad for something much bigger — the creation of a large campus on nearby land that is jointly occupied by SDSU, CSUSM and UCSD.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The study, which was done in living yeast cells and human cell lines, illustrates how proteins act collectively by forming a crystal that gathers caspases together to activate the cell death program and enable the cell to make a rapid life-or-death decision.
    Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The defense posted its first regular-season shutout in 14 years, a collectively perfect day, but the offense has cooked for four weeks, and, yes, that includes a losing effort in Jacksonville.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025

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“En masse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/en%20masse. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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