crowd
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And he breathed life into a stadium that had a crowd of only 49,104 — short of a sellout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The demonstration was held before a crowd of Tesla enthusiasts—some of whom paid $250,000 to reserve the car nine years ago—at a SpaceX rocket test site facility in McGregor, Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Photos published by local French newspaper La Voix du Nord, external showed a small bus with damage to its front and side standing alongside a train, among a crowd of emergency workers.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
In the nearer term, he cautioned, even a small amount of S&P 500 underperformance could trigger that momentum crowd to flee, speeding up a selloff.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Ba and I watched as she maneuvered through the thinning crowd until she passed into the back.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Such “riotous situations” necessitated the use of tear gas against crowds, he said, something the department hadn’t done in decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
On her Middle of Nowhere tour, Kacey Musgraves turns arenas into irreverent dance halls, from a Ronnie Dunn drag-king cameo to floating above crowds in disco-ball Truck Nutz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The plan was to avoid the crowds by heading to the little-visited Westfjords, a fitting—if admittedly risky—place to reintroduce my freshly ambulant, 74-year-old mother to the wider world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In China's cities, despite the huge crowds, or maybe because of them, residents can feel very isolated.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
In Paris, people were shouting, “To Berlin!” while in the German capital, crowds urged their army on to Paris.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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We paint our current selves onto the kids we grew up with, so the bookworm remembers a childhood crowded with library lovers, and today’s teenagers are contrasted with classmates who never existed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The audiobook venture would bring it into an already crowded category, currently dominated by Spotify and Amazon’s Audible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The explosion of arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has crowded detention centers nationwide, leaving tens of thousands of families to navigate a complex immigration landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
"It brought Jaguar from the back pages to the front pages, given that it was dying in a crowded international market," says Schmidt.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Jonah crowded close, with Chip and Katherine and Alex pressed in tightly beside him.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Actor D’Arcy Carden stopped by early, beating the cadre of guests crowding the main plaza beneath the now-famous oculus of the 300,000-square-foot Ma Yansong-designed building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
But for the country’s counterparts—Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain—tourism is the focus of protests by locals because overtourism is driving up the cost of living and crowding them out of their homes.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Morgan Stanley’s Michael Mauboussin has long warned that crowding can lead to inefficiencies and mispricing in markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
They encouraged her to participate in the progressive causes of the era, most importantly helping the thousands of Eastern European immigrants then crowding into the Midwest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
She thought of Dyedka’s Slavist worship, and of Mama's prayers on Shabbat, and wondered what the tsar’s new churches were crowding out.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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