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horde
in
The Impossible Knife of Memory
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Every few minutes a new horde of girls would buzz over and bug him about tickets or T-shirts or swim practice.†
p. 70.9 *

horde = a large number
It was hard enough surviving day to day, both navigating the hordes at Zombie High and listening to the bomb that had started ticking inside my father's head.†
p. 149.2

hordes = large numbers
Despite this strategy, the hordes gossiped about us.†
p. 149.5
The horde would not protect him.†
p. 270.6

horde = a large number
While Trish washed the dishes after dinner, I sat on the couch and killed hordes of attacking zombies with a double-barreled shotgun.†
p. 273.3

hordes = large numbers
I wondered if they were rampaging in downtown Albany, or maybe took a train to join the larger horde, probably in Poughkeepsie.†
p. 315.3

horde = a large number
Hordes marched past us, shrieking like crows into their phones, carrying small fortunes in big shopping bags, their faces distorted in the reflection of the hanging silver-and-gold decorations.†
p. 322.4

hordes = large numbers

Definitions:

(1) (horde)
a very large number -- typically of people, animals, or insects on the move
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)