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 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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Esparza plays the unhinged tyrant with a quickness, his bright eyes darting and weaving with each newfangled notion.

— Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2026
The Barcelona forward is a different option to Solanke with his ability in tight spaces and desire to stretch the defensive line with darting runs in-behind.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 31 July 2026

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Adames then led off the bottom of the seventh, popping out and jogging gingerly back to the dugout.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026
Two-time defending champion Marcell Jacobs pulled up halfway through Tuesday's final with an apparent leg injury before jogging across the line.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

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