as in entourage
a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person
a campaign bus carrying the candidate, her retinue, and a gaggle of reporters and bloggers
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Recent Examples of retinue
They’re supported and sometimes antagonized by a colorful retinue of women, and each actor in the six-woman cast steps forward to steal at least one scene.
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Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 2 June 2025
Every major galaxy like the Milky Way has a retinue of smaller dwarf galaxies orbiting it.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 May 2025
In Saudi Arabia, major royals have retinues and security details.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
In time, the lion and bull became close friends – so much so that the lion stopped hunting, and the animals in his retinue began starving.
—John Nemec, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
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Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 2 June 2025
Every major galaxy like the Milky Way has a retinue of smaller dwarf galaxies orbiting it.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 May 2025
In Saudi Arabia, major royals have retinues and security details.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
In time, the lion and bull became close friends – so much so that the lion stopped hunting, and the animals in his retinue began starving.
—John Nemec, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retinue
entourage
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Advertisement Advertisement All this is new: the adulation, the notoriety, the xenophobic death threats that have prompted an entourage of men with spaghetti earpieces.—
Mark Chiusano,
Time,
14 Aug. 2025
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But any loose association of two or more people is enough, like Combs’ entourage, Rahami said.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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“Retinue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retinue. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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