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The Sheriff's Office posted a brief video where a search and rescue posse member lowered themselves down from the helicopter, securing the hiker and hoisting them both back to the aircraft.
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Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 15 Jan. 2026
Scouring databases and reviewing various public records, the Tribune analysis on the front page of Monday’s News-Sun, determined that equipping and deploying the posse of hundreds of federal agents readily totaled that $59 million figure.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
So McCarthy is still doing very well indeed for a guy who was once chased down Route 1 in Saugus by a posse of local police, finally cornered in a mall parking lot and charged with drunk driving.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
After the Great Splintering that seemed to occur after the pandemic, digicore artists are dropping posse cuts and random madcap loosies with each other again.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 17 Dec. 2025
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Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 15 Jan. 2026
Scouring databases and reviewing various public records, the Tribune analysis on the front page of Monday’s News-Sun, determined that equipping and deploying the posse of hundreds of federal agents readily totaled that $59 million figure.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
So McCarthy is still doing very well indeed for a guy who was once chased down Route 1 in Saugus by a posse of local police, finally cornered in a mall parking lot and charged with drunk driving.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
After the Great Splintering that seemed to occur after the pandemic, digicore artists are dropping posse cuts and random madcap loosies with each other again.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 17 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for posse
entourage
Noun
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Indeed, the young British society swan was living in Austria to perfect her German when Adolf Hitler and his entourage drove past her apartment in Vienna, marking the start of the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria, in March 1938.—
Stephanie Bridger-Linning,
Vanity Fair,
17 Feb. 2026
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Most of the film follows Dylan and his entourage (including Joan Baez) on a tour of England, trading wits with journalists and getting hammered at a notorious hotel party that involves someone (who?—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Posse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posse. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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