as in darted
to move together in a quick and disordered manner and usually in a large group
At the sound of the lunch bell, all five hundred students in the building stampeded toward the cafeteria.
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Minneapolis police soon arrived at the scene, and officers darted inside the school, Garrity said.—
Marc Santia,
NBC news,
28 Aug. 2025 -
Fifteen minutes after the Houston Astros opened their clubhouse to reporters Tuesday afternoon, Mauricio Dubón darted toward his locker.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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The players marched on to the field, jogged beneath the team’s blow-up tunnel, then sprinted between two lines formed by the 34 varsity cheerleaders.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Aug. 2025
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Her stylist also dressed Swift in a skin-baring crystal chainmail look from the Area 2022 collection, a costume that jogged our memories of Swift's 2022 MTV VMAs equally sexy entrance.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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