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noun

plural of stampede
as in floods
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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verb

present tense third-person singular of stampede
as in darts
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 stampedes
Noun
The response underscores the intensity of the speculative mania around AI, which has fueled stampedes into would-be winners and panicked rushes away from any industry that seems poised to be hit by the competitive threat. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026 Crowds were relatively small last month, especially compared to March weekends in the years after the COVID pandemic, when thousands of young people packed Ocean Drive and the party was sullied by shootings, stampedes and curfews. — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026 Crowding and stampedes sometimes occur in Pakistan during Ramadan, when government agencies, charities and businesses distribute food and cash to poor families. — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026 In that spirit, the presidency — despite policy detours, rhetorical bucking and social-media stampedes — remains a powerful instrument of national motion. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2026 Trump should discipline his rhetoric, avoiding terms such as riots and stampedes that echo regime propaganda. — Behnam Ben Taleblu, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2026 The Saudi government has poured massive investment into redeveloping the area around holy site following a series of deadly stampedes and a crane accident that killed more than a hundred people in 2015. — MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025 People crushed or suffocated in stampedes. — Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stampedes
  1. floods
  2. darts
  3. rushes
  4. jogs
  5. torrents
Noun
  • Even short periods of moderate rain on severe burn scars can unleash post-fire floods.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Lessons from Corpus Christi In Corpus Christi, recent floods have delayed the city's water emergency until 2028, buying leaders there some time.
    — Lexi Salazar, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of floods
Verb
  • In non-linear fashion, Sorkin’s scenario darts back and forth between 2018, ’19, ’20 and ’21, offering a puzzle that eventually will come all together.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Sam Levy’s editing likewise darts associatively between these moods, seemingly letting sense memory shape the chronology of proceedings.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of darts
Noun
  • Entering the bye, ESPN ranked him tied for first (with the Giants’ Abdul Carter) in pass rush win rate, at 36%, crediting him with 20 wins on 55 pass rushes.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Kyle Monangai has 60 rushes this season and is the primary option outside of Swift.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of rushes
Verb
  • When a review begins, the referee jogs straight to a pitchside monitor.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • First inning, Shohei Ohtani walks, steals second, jogs to third on a single by Freddie Freeman, scores on a grounder by Mookie Betts.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of jogs
Noun
  • Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows?
    — Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2026
  • There was also a time when leadership halted, then resumed, downloading torrents sourced from Anna’s Archive, another staffer testified.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of torrents

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