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Recent Examples of herded
You and your daughter are fitted with masks before you are brought in through a side door to avoid contaminating the waiting room, and then herded into an isolated negative-pressure room designed to prevent the aerosolized virus from traveling into the hall.
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Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
Even here, at the premiere, scores of demonstrators, herded behind police barricades and security fencing, were waving signs and shouting at attendees.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
Parents herded them toward the buses.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Some staff members had herded them back into the school, and some students ran into the public library across the street before the federal agents drove away.
—Philip Wang, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
Hands up, we were herded into a pickup truck outside the hotel.
—Jon Meyersohn, Vanity Fair, 15 Jan. 2026
And every September, the bison, more than 1,300 of them, are herded by a group of experienced cowboys and cowgirls down to corrals, past a cheering group of onlookers.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
The salmon are too large for the dolphins themselves to eat, but the researchers found that once the dolphins led the orcas to the schools of fish, the whales herded them to the surface where the rest of the pod gobbled them up.
—New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
Elangkothai later learned through family friends that her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren were herded onto a military bus, along with other residents, and taken away by Sri Lankan army soldiers.
—Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 Nov. 2025
Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
Even here, at the premiere, scores of demonstrators, herded behind police barricades and security fencing, were waving signs and shouting at attendees.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
Parents herded them toward the buses.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Some staff members had herded them back into the school, and some students ran into the public library across the street before the federal agents drove away.
—Philip Wang, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
Hands up, we were herded into a pickup truck outside the hotel.
—Jon Meyersohn, Vanity Fair, 15 Jan. 2026
And every September, the bison, more than 1,300 of them, are herded by a group of experienced cowboys and cowgirls down to corrals, past a cheering group of onlookers.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
The salmon are too large for the dolphins themselves to eat, but the researchers found that once the dolphins led the orcas to the schools of fish, the whales herded them to the surface where the rest of the pod gobbled them up.
—New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
Elangkothai later learned through family friends that her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren were herded onto a military bus, along with other residents, and taken away by Sri Lankan army soldiers.
—Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for herded
drove
Verb
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Those include removing security gates that people complained rattled when cars drove over the track and notifying neighbors of special events at least 30 days in advance.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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That drove prices over $20, and Larry Dolan, the uncle of MSG Sports chairman James Dolan, agreed to buy the team for $323 million in 2000, locking in a nice profit for shareholders.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Herded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/herded. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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