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
Pj Green
july 30, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2025
Broadcasts aired stampedes of people trapped in the Superdome, overhead footage of submerged streets, and looted grocery stores.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 July 2025
Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 15 May 2025
Lorde fans stampeded through the streets of Lower Manhattan as news spread like wildfire that the notoriously elusive musician would offer a one-time pop-up concert.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
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Noun
About 60 others reported injuries caused by crowd crush during the mass panic and stampede following the shooting.
—Pj Green
july 30, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2025
Broadcasts aired stampedes of people trapped in the Superdome, overhead footage of submerged streets, and looted grocery stores.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 July 2025
Verb
Buffalo stampede The thing to know: The Dolphins, as usual, will be stampeded by Buffalo twice.
—Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 15 May 2025
Lorde fans stampeded through the streets of Lower Manhattan as news spread like wildfire that the notoriously elusive musician would offer a one-time pop-up concert.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
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Among the schools was TCU, whose players and coaches also wore green ribbons on their lapels at Big 12 Media Days back in July, less than a week after the flood.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Sep. 2025
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On Tuesday, 85 scientists released a 459-page rebuttal to the DOE report, highlighting a large body of scientific literature pointing to how climate change can exacerbate droughts, floods, crop failures, and other disasters.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Sep. 2025
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Three flies darted around near the back door.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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And Bryce Harper made a play on a bunt, darting into the infield and throwing the ball to Alec Bohm at third for a force-out to keep runners on first and second.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Meyers is entering the final year of his pact and wants a new deal, but the Raiders don't appear to be in any rush to extend him.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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The back-to-school rush is marked by supply lists, orientation days and fresh first-day outfits.—
Brian Castrucci,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Researchers found that jogging slowly burns visceral fat (deep abdominal fat).—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
27 Aug. 2025
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Tennis, with its explosive bursts—sprinting to the ball, stopping, lunging laterally, jogging backwards to the baseline—can yield especially powerful results.—
Alexandra Moe,
The Atlantic,
24 Aug. 2025
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Flash floods are usually characterized by raging torrents after heavy rains.—
AZCentral.com,
AZCentral.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Eight hours of work yield only eight hours of data, a trickle against the torrent that powered language models.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Aug. 2025
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Gas flow also affects stellar initial masses In another study, published in July 2025, astrophysicist Ke-Jung Chen led a research group at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics using a detailed computer simulation that modeled how gas in the early universe may have flowed.—
Luke Keller,
Space.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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In its early releases, Porsche has not defined the point where the electric motors hand off to the flow of hot exhaust gases, but the results are maximum torque all the way to 6000 rpm.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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