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 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 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

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Then, after a bullet hit Kirk, Robinson could be seen darting across the roof, dropping to ground level and sprinting away on foot, Hull added.

— Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
Chelsea attack with venom; Cole Palmer, Joao Pedro and Morgan Rogers are darting flashes of blue steel.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

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In 2022, Oklahoma death row inmate William Reece received three life sentences after pleading guilty to three murders in Texas, including the killing of 12-year-old Laura Smither, who was abducted while jogging near her home in Friendswood in 1997.

— Holly Yan, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
With his team trailing in the bottom of the 10th inning, Contreras grounded out to third and was once again booed after jogging down the line.

— Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2026

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