lemming-like

• a word derived from lemming.
  lemming

  noun

  any of various small, mouselike rodents of several genera including Lemmus, Myopus, and Dicrostonyx, of far northern regions, as L. lemmus, of Norway, Sweden, etc., noted for periodic mass migrations that sometimes involve crossing bodies of water. Incidental drownings that have occurred during such passage gave rise to the myth of mass suicides among supposedly frenzied lemmings jumping from cliffs into the sea.

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lemming-like

This is an expression of the lemming-like nature of tech investors, most of whom scarcely merit the title.

From The Verge ● May 12, 2021

When I was having my mid-30s meltdown, I felt positively besieged by articles telling me that my fertility – at that very moment – was plunging, lemming-like, off a cliff.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2020

Here, in fact, are the deep taproots of the credulity and lemming-like behavior that characterize today’s social media.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2019

This is not outrage, this is the lemming-like reaction of people who lack the ability to articulate the issues.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2016

Their lemming-like despair seemed far away from Hurlbut Street, but littie by littie the dark cloud passed over the nation, moving in the opposite direction to the weather, until it reached the Midwest.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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