flash mob
noun
: a group of people summoned (as by email or text message) to a designated location at a specified time to perform an indicated action before dispersing
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Most of the opposition’s early tactics against the Assad regime were isolated and improvised: sporadic protests after Friday prayers at a mosque or flash mobs in popular markets.
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Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2014
While flash mobs of the early 2010s quickly got deemed cringe, viral dance memes of the mid-‘10s often resulted in injuries, and the past few years of Pokémon Go may have inadvertently aided our dystopian nightmare, these look-alike contests seem, so far, to be wholly banal.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Watch Taylor Swift flash mob in Indianapolis What song did Taylor Swift fans sing in Indy flash mob?
—Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Nov. 2024
Police claim that several witnesses were pushed during the flash mobs, but there were no reports of injuries.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
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Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2014
While flash mobs of the early 2010s quickly got deemed cringe, viral dance memes of the mid-‘10s often resulted in injuries, and the past few years of Pokémon Go may have inadvertently aided our dystopian nightmare, these look-alike contests seem, so far, to be wholly banal.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Watch Taylor Swift flash mob in Indianapolis What song did Taylor Swift fans sing in Indy flash mob?
—Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Nov. 2024
Police claim that several witnesses were pushed during the flash mobs, but there were no reports of injuries.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Flash mob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flash%20mob. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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