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She tells me that when she hosted a meetup at a New Jersey mall in September, 87,000 screaming fans had mobbed the place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Stokowski, who took no salary for the tour, complained that enthusiastic South Americans had mobbed him for souvenirs�coat buttons, handkerchiefs, gloves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who could have foretold the moral and political consequences of its execution, for instance, in Boston, which fifteen years before had mobbed anti-slavery women and dragged Garrison through its streets?

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

Never could another girl have known anything like them since the days of the great professional beauties whom crowds had mobbed in Hyde Park.

From Vision House by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

There were five companies from the county that formed the regiment under Colonel Williams, one of which was commanded by Captain Charles Hutchison, the Highland corporal whom Ethan Allen had mobbed in 1771.

From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)