mob
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After he was wounded by the mob, he married a woman and was allowed back into his family’s funeral business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Indeed, old photos show a room with seating for all, with sharply dressed riders reading newspapers and enjoying casual conversation rather than standing in a sweaty mob and cursing their travel agents.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Vincent Pastore, the actor best known for mob enforcer-turned-informant Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's hit series "The Sopranos," has died at the age of 80, his manager told AFP on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
But authorities boast that the state has lately become a model for reducing mob mayhem — an assertion that many find suspect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Clare wove through the mob, leaping and ducking to avoid collision.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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In Belfast itself, local communities have gathered en masse to support their immigrant neighbors, whether by hiding them from roving mobs or raising money to repair their homes and businesses.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
The name suggests altitude, and this whitewashed village of barely 2,000 in the Algarve region is only a half-hour’s drive inland from the beach town of Albufeira and its package-tour mobs but feels centuries away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Duer was dragged to the gaol on March 23, trailed by mobs of creditors, including members of the city’s most prominent families.
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
Congress created the Insurrection Act as a fail-safe in response to armed mobs attacking their neighbors and organized militias seeking to overthrow elected officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Some individuals took the narrow view, insisting that the culpability and the solution lay with the mobs.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Fans mobbed an airport to jeer him as he boarded a private jet bound for LSU.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
But when the team showed up in Detroit ahead of its World Cup opener, the players were mobbed at the airport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
Later that evening, Charles was mobbed by hundreds of well-wishers at a tea party held at the British Embassy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
At the final whistle, Kinsky was mobbed by team-mates in a mixture of euphoria and relief.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
Today, the only work of art in the world as mobbed as the Mona Lisa is The Last Supper.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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But as any financial news reader knows, investors have been mobbing the exits of nontraded private credit funds in the past month.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
But Leonard came through, his teammates mobbing him after the shot in celebration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
“You’ve got a scholarship,” Foster said to cheers from the other players who leaped from their seats, mobbing Prongos in a celebration reminiscent of when Foster was introduced in the same auditorium seven months earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
They were treated like superstars, with crowds waiting for autographs, camping outside their hotel and mobbing their team coach.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2024
My own teammates almost killed me in the end zone, mobbing me, burying me under a pile of bodies, like they never saw a touchdown before.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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