stampede
Example Sentences
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Private-credit managers are facing an ongoing reckoning as individual investors stampede out of private-credit funds, worried about a downturn in software, a number of high-profile defaults and restrictions accessing their money.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Some investors are seizing on the current stampede out of private credit as a chance to buy into funds at significant discounts to reported net assets.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
But with plenty of borrowed money going into speculative trades—especially silver—it didn’t take much to cause a stampede for the exits, especially with commodity exchange CME Group also raising margin requirements on various metals.
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026
But as the Argentine rappers, decked out in Versace, plowed through their catchiest hits like “Dumbai” and “Sheesh,” a dancing stampede made its way over.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
He stared up at the smoking hill of ash and then down at the stampede of footprints around it.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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