STAMPEDING Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

stampeding

verb

present participle of stampede

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 The Bison won Camelia Bowl games at Sacramento City College’s Hughes Stadium to cap the 1969 and 1970 seasons, stampeding past Montana both times. — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Sailing through the Drake Passage is like being on a mountain bike and joining in with a herd of stampeding bison, or like paragliding between Alpine peaks in the middle of the wildest storm. — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 Politicians are stampeding to distance themselves from an important industry. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026 Even the adults are too absorbed by their screens to notice a herd of dolls stampeding through a house. — 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 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

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One kitten stared transfixed through the glass while the other, unfazed, was more interested in darting around playfully.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Thank you to the San Francisco Zoo for their expertise darting the lion and documenting the scene.

— Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026

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As the storm approached Puerto Vallarta, National Guard vehicles patrolled the streets while police used a megaphone to call out the few people who were jogging, walking their dogs or biking by the waterfront.

— Fernando Llano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
Brooks came back to the sideline 20 minutes later, and was spotted jogging.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2026

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stamped (out)

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