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as in crowd
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
a mob of pigeons soon flocked around us after they spied the bread crumbs
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as in populace
the body of the community as contrasted with the elite
political speeches designed to appeal to the mob
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Recent Examples of mob
Arman Khan,
Pitchfork,
19 June 2026
When Lee was 12, a racist mob destroyed her family’s house and all their belongings.
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Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
James Robson,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2026
Now Reyna was being mobbed by his teammates—including Berhalter’s son, also a member of the squad.
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Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
13 June 2026
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Noun
To plan the record, the band first met at Old Canteen, another Italian restaurant that once hosted guests like Frank Sinatra and Providence’s mob-friendly mayor Buddy Cianci.
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Arman Khan,
Pitchfork,
19 June 2026
When Lee was 12, a racist mob destroyed her family’s house and all their belongings.
—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
Verb
As Reyna wheeled away in celebration, hands covering his ears, he was mobbed by teammates, substitutes and even Pochettino, who raced across the field to join in the moment.
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James Robson,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2026
Now Reyna was being mobbed by his teammates—including Berhalter’s son, also a member of the squad.
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Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
13 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mob
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Her extroverted big sister, on the other hand, loves being out and about, exploring new places, unruffled by noise or crowds.
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Organizers are encouraging fans to arrive early and plan ahead, as large crowds are expected for the team's match.
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The series follows the Black Mafia Family in Detroit and is based on a true story.
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On the surface, the crime drama follows the rise and fall of the Black Mafia Family — one of the most influential crime families in the country.
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But the show repeatedly undercuts that point of view by halfway reinforcing the age-old American assumption that crime is born of poor individual choices among an uncivilized populace, not of poverty, desperation, and preservation, both self and communal.
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Walk our entire populace there and have the tools to be able to accomplish that.
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This block featured Argentina’s first game of the tournament, played at Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City Stadium), and thousands who didn’t buy tickets to the game flocked to watch it at the festival with their fellow countrymen.
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Several hours before the whistle blew on the pitch, Norwegian fans flocked to Times Square in the heart of New York City to give their squad a proper sendoff.
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Norway fans kept up a steady patter of chants and song throughout the early innings, a display that prompted SNY field reporter Steve Gelbs to brave the throng.
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Others hung out on apartment patios overhead as the two orange buses and a throng of people at least eight blocks in length passed by.
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At one point, Jessie befriends a gang of tech toys that includes a low-tech potty-training product named Smarty Pants, along with GPS and camera devices Atlas and Snappy.
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Pluverge, an ice cream maker at Taste the Tropics, came to the United States on asylum after he was kidnapped and tortured by gang members in his home country.
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Lalas’ apparent delight in courting the enmity of the American viewing public also extends to his co-hosts—so much so that his early verbal scuffles with Zlatan Ibrahimović have gone more viral than whooping cough.
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No matter what Bedard or Blackhawks management say in public about contract negotiations, there can be no mistaking the scream of desperation emanating from the Byram acquisition.
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There are anecdotal cases of seismic swarms before a large rupture that, in hindsight, could have provided some clues to possibly detect early signs of future large ruptures.
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But for some reason the powers that be have decreed artificial intelligence a civilizational imperative, requiring the hurried construction of swarms of data centers, on Earth and in space.
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“Mob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mob. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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