as in darting
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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Recent Examples of stampeding
The hilariously surreal visual of 17 children stampeding through suburbia like a herd of angry elephants with murderous intent required some clever cinematic trickery.
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Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stampeding
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Inevitably, someone ended up swinging a quilt around to mimic the great snake’s darting heads and churning coils.—
Seamus Sullivan
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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Their direct running, with pace and purpose, darting into spaces, meant Liverpool were under pressure from the speed with which Palace moved the ball in transition.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
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Doku passes to O’Reilly, who passes back to Gvardiol while jogging towards the centre, pulling Walker and Tchaouna with him as Burnley attempt to compress space in the middle.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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To find the best folding treadmill, our team of PEOPLE testers tried 26 options at home, walking and jogging at least four times per week during the trial period.—
Claire Harmeyer,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Stampeding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stampeding. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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