as in crowd
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
grabbed a megaphone and addressed the vast throng
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Recent Examples of throng
ABC News,
21 June 2026
Christina Hara, a member of our editorial staff, decked out in orange and blue, was among the throng.
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Ian Crouch,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
22 May 2026
In a cell-phone video of the opening, the space was thronged with people.
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Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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Noun
Canal Saint Martin in Paris drew throngs Sunday splashing and diving off a bridge, despite authorities' attempts to control the crowds.
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ABC News,
21 June 2026
Christina Hara, a member of our editorial staff, decked out in orange and blue, was among the throng.
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Ian Crouch,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
Verb
Behind Anthropic’s meteoric rise are the developers who thronged the London hall this week, eating free lunch and dinner, and accepting complimentary mini computers.
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Billy Perrigo,
Time,
22 May 2026
In a cell-phone video of the opening, the space was thronged with people.
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Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throng
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Her extroverted big sister, on the other hand, loves being out and about, exploring new places, unruffled by noise or crowds.
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Organizers are encouraging fans to arrive early and plan ahead, as large crowds are expected for the team's match.
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This block featured Argentina’s first game of the tournament, played at Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City Stadium), and thousands who didn’t buy tickets to the game flocked to watch it at the festival with their fellow countrymen.
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Several hours before the whistle blew on the pitch, Norwegian fans flocked to Times Square in the heart of New York City to give their squad a proper sendoff.
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There are anecdotal cases of seismic swarms before a large rupture that, in hindsight, could have provided some clues to possibly detect early signs of future large ruptures.
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But for some reason the powers that be have decreed artificial intelligence a civilizational imperative, requiring the hurried construction of swarms of data centers, on Earth and in space.
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The biggest swing the film makes story-wise is the running side plot about the horde of Buzzes that doesn’t intersect with the main story until the third act.
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For the avid gardener in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC, stepping out the front door in the summer meant being assaulted by hordes of those flying hypodermic needles, ready to bore into her skin and leave itchy welts – and sometimes serious infections like malaria or Zika – behind.
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“Throng.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throng. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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