droves

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With as many as one in eight American adults taking the pills or injectables now, big employers from Cigna to PricewaterhouseCoopers are dropping coverage of so-called GLP-1s in droves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Outside the San Gabriel Valley, residents of Coachella and Imperial County are showing up in droves to protest local proposals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

But under tightened security, military personnel marched in droves across Red Square.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

But across the country, families — first in smatterings, now in droves — are declining the single, inexpensive injection given at birth to newborns to help their blood clot.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

Northern Europeans who were sent out to hot tropical lowland areas used to die in droves of diseases such as malaria, to which tropical peoples had evolved some genetic resistance.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond