as in multitude
a large group of people or things
—usually singular
A bevy of girls waited outside.
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Recent Examples of bevy
Despite the rain in New York City, marchers kicked off the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday morning with a bevy of marching bands, clowns and performances from various artists.
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Filip Timotija, The Hill, 28 Nov. 2024
Tippet was one of many fitness influencers who have in recent years openly discussed the use of steroids, which build muscle but come with a bevy of health risks.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Back-to-back parties, overflowing champagne, and a bevy of traffic worth enduring in the name of a good time.
—Jamila Stewart, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2024
For CEOs who were at the helm during the COVID-19 pandemic and the bevy of challenges that followed has been a generational experience that will forever define their careers.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Filip Timotija, The Hill, 28 Nov. 2024
Tippet was one of many fitness influencers who have in recent years openly discussed the use of steroids, which build muscle but come with a bevy of health risks.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Back-to-back parties, overflowing champagne, and a bevy of traffic worth enduring in the name of a good time.
—Jamila Stewart, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2024
For CEOs who were at the helm during the COVID-19 pandemic and the bevy of challenges that followed has been a generational experience that will forever define their careers.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bevy
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While there are a multitude of changes that social studies classes would benefit from, the Advanced Placement (AP) writing curriculum is a feasible example of a standardizable method to teach students source evaluation.Brayden Pryor, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
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Each tester felt that their hair was smoother, softer, and silkier than before thanks to its negative ion technology and multitude of styling attachments.Alyssa Brascia, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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During his tenure, the agency passed a slew of new consumer protections and generally took a more active posture in regulating and penalizing the industries under its umbrella.Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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The 94-year-old legendary investor made a slew of head-turning moves during the year.Yun Li, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2024
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During the course of that investigation, Tesla made changes to its systems, including with a myriad of over-the-air software updates.Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
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In one of the final episodes on USA, WWE jam-packed the two-hour time slot with a myriad of deep, developing storylines and some solid in-ring action.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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The past two years have set alarming records in the U.S., with dozens of billion-dollar weather disasters.Mindy Lubber, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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Plane and helicopter pilots reported dozens of incidents of lasers being pointed at them over New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in early December.Michael Wilson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Cities mean closer quarters, dark alleys, and forked paths where one wrong turn means meeting a horde of Voteless to liberate.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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Areas affected by recent hurricanes also need to bring in hordes of outside workers as communities begin to rebuild.Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2024
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The television-programming sea, after all, is full of sharks: How daring can Squid 2 be (or afford to be) without falling into the jaws of preposterousness?Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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California weather watches and warnings Weather watches and warnings around the US National weather radar A week of deadly weather While Christmas offered a brief reprieve, stormy seas have rocked many parts of the state in the past week.Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The city’s mayor and top police official stood among a throng of heavily armed officers last Thursday when Mangione was flown to a Manhattan heliport and slowly escorted up a pier after being extradited from Pennsylvania.Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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Warren himself was too overcome to talk to a throng of reporters who awaited his release.CBS News, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2024
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The game tells the story of a future Earth long after catastrophe—in the form of an autonomous robotic swarm—has ruined the planet.Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024
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These new bots swarm websites not to catalog content but to feed that content to AI, a technology that threatens to replace search as the default means of online discovery (and does so by digesting and regurgitating the content in a monstrous, unciteable form).Longreads, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Bevy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bevy. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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