as in crowd
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
grabbed a megaphone and addressed the vast throng
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Recent Examples of throng
Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Avoid Wednesday afternoon, because French children have no school, freeing throngs of families for museum-going.
—Elaine Sciolino, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
Brenda Wineapple, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
The summers always seemed to be hot and streets like Granby thronged.
—Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The rioters returned that night to Rock Springs, where a cheering throng of several hundred residents greeted them.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Avoid Wednesday afternoon, because French children have no school, freeing throngs of families for museum-going.
—Elaine Sciolino, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
Verb
As enslaved men and women thronged around the army, many were heard to say that the day of Jubilee had finally arrived.
—Brenda Wineapple, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
The summers always seemed to be hot and streets like Granby thronged.
—Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throng
Noun
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Given the buzz, Glory owner and co-head coach Keke Blackmon has no idea how big of a crowd to expect Saturday.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2025
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It’s expected the A’s will draw near-capacity crowds for the bulk of their games, particularly in series against popular teams like the Cubs, New York Yankees and the Giants.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The discovery has sparked calls for justice as families have flocked to the ranch, hoping to find signs of a missing loved one.—
Fidel Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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While faithful flocked to Notre Dame in Paris and St. Peters in Rome to worship, they were also blown away by the amazing art and architecture inside these holy shrines.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Except for Carmen, who seems to have been encouraged to inhabit her parents’ rather chaotic world, the children are indistinguishable: A great swarm of pandemonium-causing rich children.—
Peter Tonguette,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
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Although a single penguin is capable of devouring thousands of krill in a single sitting, swarms of the zooplankton may detect disturbances in the water ahead of mealtime.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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To see hostages paraded like props in front of the cameras to the screaming hordes in Gaza in successive releases, no one had anything to say about that.—
David Draiman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Mar. 2025
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Operating like the best live-action Looney Tunes movie that never was, Hundreds of Beavers is essentially a series of increasingly zany gags in which fur trapper fend off literal hordes of beavers.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Throng.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throng. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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