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 There’s a been another posse of feds crawling all over Lawrence lately. Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025 But the true paranoia is saved for the mysterious, primate-like species called ochi, beasts that once again evade a nighttime hunt led by Yuri’s father, ludicrously armor-accessorized like a cosplay centurion, leading a posse of rifle-wielding boys from the area. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025 Being part of a successful posse could earn a man a share of the reward money put up by the railroad, which was just a pittance compared to what the robbers took while the lawmen chasing them lived in the saddle for days or even weeks. Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025 After further cementing his commercial breakout over the last several months with posse cuts, pop superstar co-signs and his first solo charting tracks, the 26-year-old Bronx hitmaker’s star is still rising. Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for posse
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Noun
  • So, the fact that Viola has her entourage and her followers, and this idea of everyone who’s taken the potion lives within her palace.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 May 2025
  • In 2012 he was involved in a brawl with Drake and his entourage at a N.Y. nightclub that injured eight people, followed by an altercation with Frank Ocean over a parking space in West Hollywood in 2013.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 May 2025
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  • The key crew includes cinematographer Maxence Lemonnier, editor Guerric Catala, sound designers Pascal Armant and Pierre Gauthier and production designer Rafael Mathé.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • Search-and-rescue crews faced low visibility and murky waters during the eight-hour operation, with water temperatures dropping to the low 60s in the evening, NBC Philadelphia reported.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 15 May 2025

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“Posse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posse. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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