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as in throng
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
awed by the multitude of stars in the night sky
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as in populace
the body of the community as contrasted with the elite
the nation's idle rich frolicked while the multitude starved
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Recent Examples of multitude
Like any good character, Finneas’ score contains multitudes.
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Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026
Wally, a doctor, wants to experiment with Mother and use her golden blood to help humanity, arguing that the youthful elixir surely contains a multitude of medical cures.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Today’s students have a multitude of fun options at their fingertips—and DePiper recommends taking full advantage.
—Alex Vance, Parents, 23 May 2026
The former has gone viral on TikTok and been used by a multitude of celebs, like Billie Eilish and Alix Earle.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 22 May 2026
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Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026
Wally, a doctor, wants to experiment with Mother and use her golden blood to help humanity, arguing that the youthful elixir surely contains a multitude of medical cures.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Today’s students have a multitude of fun options at their fingertips—and DePiper recommends taking full advantage.
—Alex Vance, Parents, 23 May 2026
The former has gone viral on TikTok and been used by a multitude of celebs, like Billie Eilish and Alix Earle.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 22 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for multitude
Noun
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Walking among this throng of floating color balls is surreal and well worth the drive.—
Shauna Farnell,
Denver Post,
25 May 2026
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The attacks came as public officials and lawmakers have been planning to deal with throngs of visitors for the World Cup, which is slated to start next month with seven matches in Foxborough at Gillette Stadium.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
23 May 2026
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Gentile da Foligno in Perugia Italy was one of the few regions in Latin Christendom where physicians organized into guilds in the fourteenth century and thus routinely treated the general populace, rather than merely the wealthier mercantile and aristocratic classes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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No matter what happens, the Islamic Republic will not have an easy time reigning over its exhausted populace and rebuilding its economy and infrastructure.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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Marquee continues to draw big DJs and bottle-service crowds, giving in-house partiers a straightforward, elevator-ride-away nightlife option.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Curry has traveled to China seven times with the most recent tour to Chongqing last August, and each visit has drawn massive, frenzied crowds.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
2 June 2026
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On a recent day, a flock of some 30 were perched in the distance — scattering when a pair of squawking oystercatchers alerted them to visitors.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 May 2026
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Looking for more ways to entice flocks of birds to your yard?—
Brittany VanDerBill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 May 2026
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In the 18 months since, Chief of Police Kevin Freeman said the department has responded to around 625 calls for service — 134 of which occurred this calendar year — in regards to people camping or sleeping in public around the city.—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 2026
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Hampshire’s police and crime commissioner has called for a review of religious exemptions on the carrying of knives in public after the fatal stabbing of Henry Nowak last December.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
3 June 2026
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Even advanced swarms often depend on stable communications and relatively simple coordination logic.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
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Its journey is bringing it closer to both the middle of that swarm and some of the other individual galaxies in the cluster.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 May 2026
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Forty-eight days, 16 hours, 57 minutes and 12 seconds after a virus transforms humanity into a blissful symbiotic horde, one of its survivors, Carol (Rhea Seehorn), treats a rooftop as a personal driving range — the golf balls shattering a neighboring building’s windows.—
Daron James,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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The venue only seats 2,600, so hordes of fans queued up for the standby list in Riverside Park before parking themselves behind bullpens.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
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But Kyiv’s early embrace of drones, and the mass-industrialization of their accuracy and power, has begun to exact a defining toll on Moscow.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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Even with the production pipeline slowing down in post-strike years, the sheer mass of TV shows angling for Emmy attention in these late spring months is intense.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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“Multitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/multitude. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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