phalanx

The state’s ultrawealthy are taking a strategic approach to the proposed billionaire tax, with the help of a phalanx of tax and trust-and-estate advisers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Outside, under the eye of the carabinieri and a phalanx of photographers, the crowd waited.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

A phalanx of guards with full armor and riot shields watched over proceedings.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

He surrendered after a phalanx of heavily armed officers stormed the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

Around him, close enough to touch, was a dense phalanx of horses moving at terrific speed: Indian Broom on the rail, Pompoon on the outside, Mandingham right on Fair Knightess’s tail.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

She uses it to tap fatefully on trees and listen for the tiny movements of tasty grubs within, which she then extracts using those same Nosferatu phalanges.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

On Sunday, Barker shared graphic photos of his blood-stained pants and sanguinary phalanges, which took a beating after Blink-182’s set in Manchester, England.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

I'd start with a small, manageable story: one hand has twenty-seven bones, split into three types—the carpals, the metacarpals, and the slippery phalanges.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022

The phalanges fall into line like a picket fence with boards of varying lengths, the knuckles unknobby.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

We have five fingers because we have descended from a Devonian fish that had five phalanges or bones in its fins.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

In the past, insurers have deployed phalanxes of angry seniors and run large-scale ad campaigns, including a commercial during the Super Bowl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Afterwards, Gandhi presided over waves of civil disobedience protests, encouraging supporters of the Indian National Congress to manufacture contraband salt, boycott foreign goods, and face down phalanxes of lathi-wielding policemen.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

Federal security was finally forthcoming for Gaytán — at her funeral, which featured phalanxes of troops guarding Celaya’s cathedral.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

When Swift began reporting on her own fame on “Dear John,” it had the secondary effect of activating phalanxes of fans who went to war on her behalf, too.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

Cold-bright, not flickering against the plush blackness of deep space, phalanxes and legions of stars without numbers, in such wild profusion that space actually seemed three dimensional.

From Voyage To Eternity by Stephen Marlowe