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as in swarms
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
a host of people assembled along the parade route to see the new president
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as in armies
a large body of men and women organized for land warfare
the small band of defenders was no match for the enemy's mighty host of thousands
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as in announcers
a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity
our favorite morning TV show has a new host
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Recent Examples of hosts
The ninth-place team in each conference hosts the 10th-place team in another play-in game.
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Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Vancouver hosts Seattle next Tuesday.
—ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Your 11th House of Hopefulness hosts Mars, which is presently sextiling defiant Uranus in your determined sign.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
That same campy, communal energy is what Kane and fellow drag queen Katrina Prowess now bring to the Plaza each month as hosts of WussyVision.
—Tess Malone, AJC.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Sister Miriam hosts, interviewing other sisters about their lives, including education and personal conversion journeys.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026
People can carry their own, and hosts should stock their bathrooms with those products.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
The move surprised both hosts, given how important the NFL is to Fox’s business and the fact that the league is beginning to renegotiate all of its major media deals in the coming months.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 7 Apr. 2026
More celebrities are going on them to promote their projects, but these hosts are not interviewers.
—HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Vancouver hosts Seattle next Tuesday.
—ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Your 11th House of Hopefulness hosts Mars, which is presently sextiling defiant Uranus in your determined sign.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
That same campy, communal energy is what Kane and fellow drag queen Katrina Prowess now bring to the Plaza each month as hosts of WussyVision.
—Tess Malone, AJC.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Sister Miriam hosts, interviewing other sisters about their lives, including education and personal conversion journeys.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026
People can carry their own, and hosts should stock their bathrooms with those products.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
The move surprised both hosts, given how important the NFL is to Fox’s business and the fact that the league is beginning to renegotiate all of its major media deals in the coming months.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 7 Apr. 2026
More celebrities are going on them to promote their projects, but these hosts are not interviewers.
—HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hosts
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In effect, this would see Japan sending swarms of cheap drones first during a strike.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Apr. 2026
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In March, the company said its Bahraini data center had been damaged after Iran sent swarms of drones in the region.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
2 Apr. 2026
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Of these three exceptions, the only one that still applies is to the children of diplomats, as there are no invading armies, and Native Americans were granted automatic citizenship in 1924.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2026
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Khaki thereafter served as the official color for uniforms of British armies, native and colonial, in India.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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Calling a game for TV is much different than radio, and most (not all) announcers react according to the medium.—
Mac Engel
April 2,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Apr. 2026
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Last month, Pat and Maggie teamed up again — this time on a bigger stage — serving as guest announcers at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Last Saturday, in Grapevine, Texas, Pahlavi spoke to throngs of his supporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2026
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Vast plazas are missing the typical throngs of faithful and tourists.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Rather, our liberties would be saved by the ragtag battalions of night people doing their tireless work, unpaid, unheralded, and largely unseen.—
Daniel Brook,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, historical epics reimagine Ming dynasty battalions fighting fantastical monsters, using special effects and visuals in ways that traditional production might find prohibitively expensive.—
Faye Bradley,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2026
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The movie considered what would happen if flocks of birds, animals that linger in the background of many of our daily lives, suddenly rose up and attacked a small coastal town in California.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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But farmers have been rapidly replenishing flocks that died or had to be destroyed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
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And since the album came out, hordes of fans have turned into armchair investigators, trying to assess which songs may contain AI.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
1 Apr. 2026
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Us senior surfers need to stick together to hold off the hordes of nasty agro kidbots that are violently intent on world domination and the spread of nuclear surf rabies and mad Red Bull disease.—
Corky Carroll,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
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For one, Father Matijevic said Pope Leo, the first American pope, and a Chicago native, is drawing crowds.—
Marissa Sulek,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Those tactics led to backlash from local Black leaders, who said police went too far in dealing with crowds of mostly Black young people.—
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Hosts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hosts. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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