as in entourage
a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person a popular teen and his ever-present posse of pals

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Recent Examples of posse Williams brought a small posse and sported a yellow shorts and blazer set. Anika Reed, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025 Town have several hundred squeezed into a covered section behind the goal, which can easily be divided into a larger group of middle-aged supporters and families, then a sizeable posse of teenage ultras, all dressed in black in the same style as, for example, the Ashburton Army at Arsenal. Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025 Now there’s a posse chasing her. Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025 The living dead, eaters of human flesh who are lurking in the Evans City Cemetery, are being gunned down and burned by an armed posse led by Sheriff Ken Johnson and Deputy Jeff Sanders. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for posse
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  • Tiel traveled with her in the late '60s and early '70s, spending many months with her and her entourage in the finest hotels all over Europe on various film shoots.
    Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The costumed entourage will make their way through Jefferson Street venues like Foy, Taylors, Electric Lime, Experts Only and SportClub.
    Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • The Royal Navy crew achieved the major milestone as part of HMS Agamemnon’s ‘trim dive’, a three-day period of testing in the town’s Devonshire Dock to prove the attack vessel’s stability and safety.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The four crew members onboard the plane were sent to local hospitals for medical treatment.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Posse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posse. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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