as in flood
a large group of animals or people moving together in a quick and disordered way
During the morning rush hour, the coffee shop gets hit with a stampede of customers.
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as in to dart
to move together in a quick and disordered manner and usually in a large group
At the sound of the lunch bell, all five hundred students in the building stampeded toward the cafeteria.
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Recent Examples of stampede
Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Miami Beach’s decision to shut down spring break came after several incidents of stampedes, fights and deadly shootings made headlines in the past few years.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2025
And then a bunch of nightgown-wearing women stampede out of an elevator door and attack.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2025
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Noun
On March 1, police descended upon Dallas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, where the championship was holding its second day competitions, as a stampede of cheerleaders, coaches and parents ran fleeing from what many believed to be an active shooter situation.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Miami Beach’s decision to shut down spring break came after several incidents of stampedes, fights and deadly shootings made headlines in the past few years.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
Creighton students huddled in the stands waiting for the final buzzer and stampeded onto the court for a storming.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2025
And then a bunch of nightgown-wearing women stampede out of an elevator door and attack.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stampede
Noun
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Best Option Restoration is a nationally franchised disaster restoration business that handles wind and storm damage, fire damage, flood/water damage, and contents cleanout to residential and commercial customers.—
Ethan Stone,
USA TODAY,
25 Mar. 2025
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Brown saw 3 feet of water flood her home in a predominantly Black neighborhood that still shows damage from the storm.—
Jesse Coburn,
ProPublica,
25 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The frenzy of amethyst flowers usually erupts at the Lake Balaton plantation in July, give or take a month, and it is accompanied by hundreds of darting butterflies.—
Ashlea Halpern,
AFAR Media,
6 Mar. 2025
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By comparison, three of his four assists for Ljungberg came centrally as the Sweden winger would make darting out-to-in support runs.—
Art de Roché,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Bruce Smith creating another great legacy away from football: A generation ago, Smith was the game's top pass rush (bad things, man, bad things!).—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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In addition, rush tickets are available via the TodayTix app at 9 a.m. Can’t get rush tickets?—
Maya Gandara,
StyleCaster,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In 14 different ballparks today (the Tampa Bay Rays and Colorado Rockies will have to wait until Friday to begin), players will jog out of the dugout and lineup along the chalk that runs from home plate to the outfield poles.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Pope made sure to share the celebration again, jogging to find his wife and daughters behind the bench for a long embrace before hustling to a TV interview.—
Jesse Temple,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Then a torrent of leads arrived, via the Knot’s online vender portal.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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More than 180,000 residents were evacuated from Butte, Sutter and Yuba counties in February 2017 when concerns mounted that the dam’s spillway would fail, sending a torrent of water downstream.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacramento Bee,
15 Mar. 2025
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Nor can trials easily restart, if the flow of money picks back up.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2025
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Social and political changes abroad disrupt markets and hurt the flow of goods between countries.—
Simon Dae Oong Kim,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Stampede.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stampede. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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