horde
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An armada of monster-pirates, the Kakamora — think coconut-flavored Gremlins — are a hectic horde with nice textures when the camera holds on them for longer than two seconds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
A horde of dancers scatter beneath the vaulted belly of Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s recently opened David Geffen Galleries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Delroy Lindo recently earned his first Academy Award nomination for his role in “Sinners” as Delta Slim, a blues musician who helps fight a vampire horde in a Mississippi juke joint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
The latest securities filing shows Strategy purchased its horde of 713,502 tokens for an average price of $76,052 each, or $54.26 billion in total.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
Jess could see Cluny and the horde coming through the trees.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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“Zone One” is a smart take on the shuffling hordes and pandemic survivors who try to take Manhattan back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Scotland will play Morocco in the city later and afterwards the hordes of fans that have called the city home for the past week or so are expected to head to Florida.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Plus, there are fewer shopping malls to employ the vast hordes of teens during the summer months.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Run for your lives, the Burberry hordes are here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The goblin-dwarf turf war had flared up again, and every morning hordes of angry parents showed up demanding the release of their innocent offspring.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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Like these commodities, data siphoned by tech companies from COVID-19 screening may be the next asset to be horded and exploited.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2020
He got it from a fellow inmate, and he horded it under his bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2015
Outside the walls of Harrenhal, a wolf horded long and loud.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Their attics were museums where were horded every sort of object against the time when it might be needed.
From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Sara Ware Bassett
What if some luckless farmer should have his home burned from around him or his horded tobacco and corn destroyed?
From The Nightrider's Feud by Walter C. McConnell
Another market force at play is consumer behavior, in this case, hording.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Cole has refused medical attention and ignored his personal hygiene, hording food and living in a darkened cell with little to no communication with staff or fellow prisoners, his attorneys told the panel.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
That could lead to some destructive outcomes if competing countries start collecting and hording arable land, Lazard said.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 2022
Can you imagine if every rich person was so focused on making the world a better place, instead of either hording their wealth or squandering it on fancy junk and stoking their egos.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2018
I would rather be an automaton in a factory than a paper pusher or a money hording entrepreneur.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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