as in people
the body of the community as contrasted with the elite
the masses demanded the elimination of tax breaks for the rich
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as in accumulates
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
clouds massing on the western side of the mountain range
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Noun
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Many people, including late night host Jimmy Fallon, compared Melania's look to The Hamburglar's.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025 -
Nearly 300 million people in the Lower 48 states were under some type of cold weather warning or advisory as of Tuesday morning.—
Andrew Freedman,
Axios,
22 Jan. 2025
Verb
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While no longer active, the rover is providing researchers new data on how dust accumulates and evolves over time in the region.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
20 Dec. 2024
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Amyloid beta accumulates in your brain due to Alzheimer’s.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
19 Dec. 2024
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Wilson totally fit in with the fashionable A-list crowd during the week.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2025
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Three people were injured after a car hit a crowd of people who were leaving the NFC playoff on Sunday night, police said.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Much of the tension in the story gathers around the mystery of Bea’s unbreakable devotion to this man.—
Rachel Aviv,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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It’s set during the civil war in the Central African Republic in 2013, when on Christmas Eve, a desperate Muslim man seeks refuge at a field hospital, while a threatening Christian militia gathers outside, demanding his life.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
19 Dec. 2024
Noun
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For 70 years, this country has spent the time in capturing heads of cartels and putting a head shot to the American public.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Scholl’s goal is not just to bring supersonic travel back to the flying public, but to do it at scale, at a cost per seat no greater than business travelers pay today—a quarter of what the old Concorde passengers had to pony up.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
19 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In the Eaton Fire zone, Latinos represent 27% of the populace but 35% of workers.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
29 Jan. 2025
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Much to the amazement of the local populace, the eggs kept popping out—until it was discovered that the owner was writing the words and reinserting the eggs into the hapless hen’s cloaca.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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Claim originally shared by parody account on X On Jan. 20, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, where a mob of Trump's supporters disrupted the counting of electoral votes after the 2020 election.—
Andre Byik,
USA TODAY,
29 Jan. 2025
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Salvini’s call was accompanied by mob violence, mass evictions and demolition of Roma informal camps set up in the streets.—
Ronald Niezen,
The Conversation,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Masses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masses. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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