as in driving
to urge, push, or force onward
the guards briskly herded us through the museum in order to prevent overcrowding
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Recent Examples of herding
Everything is founded around the reindeer herding.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
In the sixteenth century, the nomadic, reindeer-herding Sámi people of what’s now northern Sweden and Finland and the Shawnee of the Ohio Valley in North America, who lived in farming villages organized as a confederacy, didn’t necessarily have much in common.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Aug. 2025
All signatory state parties would have to agree to add a new pathogen (or new type of organism of concern) to the convention, an ungainly process of herding cats that could make this effort hard to achieve.
—Liyam Chitayat, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
Basques began settling in Northern Nevada during the silver and gold rush, herding sheep and cattle and living off the land.
—Michael Moberly, Saveur, 13 Aug. 2025
The increase in sheep herding during the Bronze Age likely played a significant role.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
And so, herding my friends to Jeff Buckley gigs became my hobby.
—Tony Gervino, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
In the sixteenth century, the nomadic, reindeer-herding Sámi people of what’s now northern Sweden and Finland and the Shawnee of the Ohio Valley in North America, who lived in farming villages organized as a confederacy, didn’t necessarily have much in common.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Aug. 2025
All signatory state parties would have to agree to add a new pathogen (or new type of organism of concern) to the convention, an ungainly process of herding cats that could make this effort hard to achieve.
—Liyam Chitayat, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
Basques began settling in Northern Nevada during the silver and gold rush, herding sheep and cattle and living off the land.
—Michael Moberly, Saveur, 13 Aug. 2025
The increase in sheep herding during the Bronze Age likely played a significant role.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
And so, herding my friends to Jeff Buckley gigs became my hobby.
—Tony Gervino, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for herding
driving
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Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The jury cleared Read of killing O’Keefe, charging her with just drunken driving.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Herding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/herding. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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