rabble
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Meta is far from the only company trying to build quickly without inspiring too much input from the rabble.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Steve Clarke's side looked like a disorganised rabble just waiting to be put out of their misery.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
Mr Holt said Mr Jones was "rabble rousing" a crowd which has been described as "tens of thousands" in size.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2024
That rabble was earning the family an immense amount of money.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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"It looks as though it had been rabbled up for the purpose," cried Hurst, in schoolboy phraseology, bending down and touching it gingerly with his finger.
From The Channings by Mrs. Henry Wood
The ores in this furnace should therefore be fed in at the colder end of the hearth and be gradually worked or "rabbled" forward to the firing end.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson
He thought that the rabbled curates had been hardly treated.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Surely, it was said, a rabbled curate might well be left to the severe scrutiny of the sixty Inquisitors.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
In the Western Lowlands, the beneficed clergy had been so effectually rabbled, that scarcely one of them had remained at his post.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Instead of expressing amused bewilderment at the peculiarity of fame--a strategy Colin Farrell has perfected--he was defiant, his Maximusian scowl declaring "How dare you be intrigued by me, ungrateful rabbling dogs!"
From Time Magazine Archive
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The method that occurred to me was the substitution of a small steam pipe in the place of the puddler's rabbling bar.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
One disadvantage of the reverberatory furnace is the fact that it is impossible to avoid the incursion of air during the manual rabbling action, and this tends to cool the furnace.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson
There are several modifications of the reverberatory furnace in use, designed mechanically to effect the rabbling.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson
They had abolished patronage; they had sanctioned the rabbling of the episcopal clergy; they had refused to pass a Toleration Act.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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