rabble
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People forget what a rabble United were when he took over as head coach in January and he has brought a bit of calmness to the club.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Those belts, if you’ll remember, were the trigger for Meryl Streep’s Oscar-nominated speech about how her imperious fashion magazine editor in chief Miranda Priestly creates trends that trickle down to the rest of us rabble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
That must be a factor in their inconsistency, but I don't think it will matter here because Wolves have been such a rabble recently.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
The heroes of the party are now living saints to the teary-eyed rabble who worship them.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
Not a great thinker, not the mastermind of the rebellion, merely a face plucked from the rabble because I had caught the nation’s attention with my antics in the Games.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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Unhappily throughout a large part of Scotland the clergy of the Established Church were, to use the phrase then common, rabbled.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
In the Western Lowlands, the beneficed clergy had been so effectually rabbled, that scarcely one of them had remained at his post.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Surely, it was said, a rabbled curate might well be left to the severe scrutiny of the sixty Inquisitors.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The Episcopal clergymen were rabbled throughout all the western shires.
From Claverhouse by Mowbray Morris
The bishops' carriages were stopped, and the prelates themselves rabbled on their way to the House.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green
Instead of expressing amused bewilderment at the peculiarity of fame--a strategy Colin Farrell has perfected--he was defiant, his Maximusian scowl declaring "How dare you be intrigued by me, ungrateful rabbling dogs!"
From Time Magazine Archive
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The method that occurred to me was the substitution of a small steam pipe in the place of the puddler's rabbling bar.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
Hand rabbling in fixed furnaces has been largely superseded by mechanical rabbling.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
I might have put it, ‘In the King’s name,’ but what I meant was that we are to proceed in decency and order—no unseemly rabbling, scuffling, or mischief making—otherwise ye have me to reckon with.
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
They had abolished patronage; they had sanctioned the rabbling of the episcopal clergy; they had refused to pass a Toleration Act.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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