groundswell

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Mamdani won a groundswell of support by promising bold and reasonable policies based on what the people told him.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Speaking to Variety, he said the groundswell of support “was really nice.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

Moltbot, an open-source AI bot that runs on Anthropic’s Claude, generated a groundswell of excitement online over the weekend.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

Mamdani, a 34-year-old Queens assemblyman, won the election in the midst of a groundswell of support among young New York voters and anxiety about the cost of living.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

White Southerners could ignore the groundswell of discontent, but, especially following World War II, blacks were simply not going to tolerate a life separate from and unequal to the American mainstream.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson