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as in throng
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
a flock of obstreperous reporters at the press conference
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Recent Examples of flock
Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2025
That began to change when sheep farmers arrived, and, to protect their flocks, probably killed off most potential penguin predators.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
Displaced residents flocked south on Tuesday despite the continued Israeli presence, some arriving home to find their towns and villages almost unrecognizable.
—Euan Ward, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Ohio has been particularly hard-hit, with 51 commercial flocks affected in the past 30 days.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2025
That began to change when sheep farmers arrived, and, to protect their flocks, probably killed off most potential penguin predators.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Verb
The crowds who first flocked to view the tapestry, back in the 11th century, would largely have been illiterate and narrative hangings of this nature, with a mix of picture and text inscriptions, were a way to tell stories that everyone could follow.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
Displaced residents flocked south on Tuesday despite the continued Israeli presence, some arriving home to find their towns and villages almost unrecognizable.
—Euan Ward, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flock
Noun
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Black Tap once had a thriving pop-up on West 14th St. in NYC that drew throngs of mostly millennial women but closed when the owners couldn’t negotiate a longer-term lease with the landlord.—
Gary Stern,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Bridges, now 70, was 6 years old when she was escorted to school by U.S. marshals through the streets of New Orleans surrounded by throngs of angry people protesting desegregation.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
24 Feb. 2025
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Just like in Diablo, the name of the game here is clicking to move and attack swarms of enemies in dark isometric dungeons, throwing in some magical attacks with the number keys on your keyboard as needed.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
26 Feb. 2025
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As the heat began to break on Main Street, swarms of exhausted families packed up their impulse purchases and their double-wide strollers and called it a day.—
Justine Harman,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2025
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Its shelters were crowded with people who, in many cases, had passed through the perilous Darién Gap, between Colombia and Panama, to reach Central America.—
New York Times,
The Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2025
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The outfield is crowded with Brandon Nimmo, Tyrone Taylor, Jose Siri, Soto and Marte, but playing time often tends to work itself out and the Mets are already planning on using Marte in right field when Soto is in the lineup as a DH.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
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This isn't surprising, as the PCMark test doesn't effectively utilize the hordes of CPU cores available in the ThinkStation across its two Xeons.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
17 Feb. 2025
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Madigan departed the courthouse just before noon Wednesday, holding hands with two of his daughters and walking out into the falling snow toward his nearby attorneys’ offices, followed by a horde of news cameras.—
Ray Long,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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In the United States, the virus has spread to about 1,000 dairy herds in 16 states and infected at least 69 people.—
Emily Anthes,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The surveillance strategy led to the recent identification of a second spillover event of H5N1 bird flu from wild birds to cows, which has spread to several herds in Nevada and at least one dairy worker.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
13 Feb. 2025
Verb
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First, there are the ones that make it to your intestines after digging into your flesh and invading your organs.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Baltic Sea region is on alert and the NATO alliance has boosted its presence after a series of power cable, telecom and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.—
Reuters,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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He was mobbed by teammates after the puck went in and cheered in a building where Maple Leafs are accustomed to being booed.—
Chris Johnston,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Sliding to his knees in relentless torrential rain, the winger was understandably mobbed by his teammates both on the field and off the bench, as the travelling hoards went wild in the away end.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Flock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flock. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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