Thesaurus results for LEGIONS

legions

noun

plural of legion

as in armies

a large body of men and women organized for land warfare joined the French Foreign Legion

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as in throngs

a great number of persons or creatures massed together legions of fans crowded the stadium for the rock concert

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Recent Examples of legions On one side, legions of determined teenagers protesting for their future by blockading schools and taking part in marches that have sometimes spiraled into violence. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026 Luckily for legions of Girls fans, Dunham’s former costars Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke, and Andrew Rannells were all on board to start filming new episodes next summer. — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2026 The once-ubiquitous men’s accessory of yesteryear has found new legions of fans among stylish youngsters and luxury brands in recent seasons. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026 No other group’s presence is as pronounced as the K-pop stars’, whose legions of fans are hard to miss online and outside venues. — Joan Kennedy, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026 The charismatic and spontaneous Tammy Faye earned a reputation for speaking her mind, sometimes in off-color ways, that brought her legions of fans. — John Wigger, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026 Beneath the megacap surface, legions of stocks are languishing in their own bear markets. — Daren Fonda, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026 What steps SiriusXM will take to address the issue called to their attention by legions of working- and middle-class comics is not yet clear. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026 The ads for online gambling can seem as ubiquitous as the score, luring legions into a new scourge of addiction. — Tracy Weber, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2026

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Noun

The conflict has taken a severe toll on both armies, although neither side reports up-to-date numbers of those killed, injured or missing.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
By 1862, the Confederates’ largest city had already returned to United States control, and America’s armies already held footholds in every single Confederate state.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026

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Salem is a vibrant, thriving, bustling city, attracting throngs of tourists in the autumn.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Guests of the hotel have a special opportunity to visit the villa privately, away from the throngs of tourists that visit from near and far.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of throngs

Noun

Mazor said the military recognized the scale of settler violence and has sent additional battalions to the West Bank to contain it.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Nor could Grossman write about collaborators or the punishment battalions composed of convicts that were used as cannon fodder (one of many parallels between the conduct of the Soviet army and the present-day Russian military in Ukraine).

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of battalions

Noun

The government has a longstanding program to breed sterile male flies and drop swarms of them from planes to mate with wild females, causing the flies to die out.

— Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
In the early eighteenth century, the village of Gais started attracting swarms of visitors, many from abroad, who wanted to sample Gaisschottenkur, a treatment featuring goat’s whey.

— D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of swarms

Noun

Better vaccines can keep outbreaks from destroying herds and flocks, protect food production, and reduce opportunities for pathogens to spread to people.

— Robert Kelly, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Large outbreaks force farms to cull their flocks to prevent the spread of the disease, diminishing the domestic supply of chickens and raising prices.

— Joe Hernandez, NPR, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of flocks

Noun

In his view, the peaceful crowds that greeted Machado on Sunday undermined arguments that her return would necessarily provoke unrest.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026
Following Jonas’s post, crowds at Whiskey Myers concerts have skewed younger.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2026

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