in the mass
Example Sentences
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The merit board alone reported 20,335 pending appeals that year, four times its usual load, filed by workers swept out in the mass terminations, and with Harris gone it could decide none of them.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Combat veterans and decorated service members have been swept up in the mass deportations.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The Lancaster University academic has long believed that babies, who were "undesirable" in the mass drive for adoption in the post-war era, were in line for even worse treatment.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
You can pinpoint where you are in the mass of circles, at any given month of life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
You cannot make out individual words in the mass, except that the recurrent phrase, “But look—” keeps bobbing above the surf of language.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
