as in darting
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 stampeding
Even the adults are too absorbed by their screens to notice a herd of dolls stampeding through a house.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
The April shooting caused a mass panic on the subway car with straphangers stampeding toward the exits as the train entered the station.
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Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
5 June 2026
After Grande is seen walking down an aisle, the event appears to be disrupted by a group of stampeding animals.
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Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Unfortunately, this all amounted to a 35-7 drubbing for the Jaguars at the hands of the stampeding Rams.
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Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
25 Oct. 2025
The hilariously surreal visual of 17 children stampeding through suburbia like a herd of angry elephants with murderous intent required some clever cinematic trickery.
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Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
The April shooting caused a mass panic on the subway car with straphangers stampeding toward the exits as the train entered the station.
—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
5 June 2026
After Grande is seen walking down an aisle, the event appears to be disrupted by a group of stampeding animals.
—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Unfortunately, this all amounted to a 35-7 drubbing for the Jaguars at the hands of the stampeding Rams.
—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
25 Oct. 2025
The hilariously surreal visual of 17 children stampeding through suburbia like a herd of angry elephants with murderous intent required some clever cinematic trickery.
—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stampeding
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Dark figures were darting through the shadows—Germans were carrying sacks and pillows to their building.
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But then two attackers made darting runs to the near post, causing chaos in the Uzbekistan defence, the ball squirted through and eventually went in via a combination of Nematov and Abdukodir Khusanov.
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Nearby in Tribeca the same day, Kelce was spotted jogging solo through the streets.
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Kelce apparently also is in New York, as a fan shared a photo said to be of him jogging.
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“Stampeding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stampeding. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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