Jaron Lanier

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

American Artist

Martin Garrix

I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.

Dutch Musician

Jason Calacanis

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

American Businessman

Rafael Cruz

Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

Brazilian Athlete

Ray Stannard Baker

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

American Journalist

Medgar Evers

We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob blocked us again. We didn't pursue it.

American Activist

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

German Philosopher

Raftaar

I don't mind getting mobbed, to be honest. I live in the real world.

Indian Musician

William Penn

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

English Leader

Diogenes

Greek Philosopher

The term often implies that the crowd is unruly or prone to violence.

Negative Connotation

Use 'mob' for big groups, not small gatherings of people.

Large Numbers

The word 'mob' suggests a lack of order or control among the people.

Disorderly Behavior

When used as a verb, 'mob' conveys a sense of aggressive crowding.

Aggressive Enthusiasm

The verb form can also imply excitement in surrounding someone famous or notable.

Excited Cluster

Use 'mobbed' when emphasizing the physical crowding, not just a big number of people.

Physical Presence

Refers to groups engaging in illegal or shady activities, often with structure.

Criminal Groups

While often associated with the Italian Mafia, 'mob' can refer to any criminal syndicate.

Not Just Italian

Implies an organization with a leader or hierarchy, such as a 'mob boss'.

Hierarchy Implication

In some countries like Australia, 'mob' specifically means a group of animals.

Animal Groups

Its use for animal groups is more common in rural or farming contexts.

Rural Context

 Why, I've heard it said that he would fight at the drop of the hat and then drop the hat himself. I ask you, was such a man fit for the most distinguished office in the nation? Can we forget the debacle of his inauguration? Who ever heard of inviting a drunken mob into the White House?

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 and interviewed people who had lost friends and family to lynch mobs. She risked her life to get this information. As a Black person investigating racially motivated murders, she enraged many of the same southern white men involved in lynchings. Her bravery paid off.

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 The people supported this revolutionary justice. Which people? An angry mob crying for blood does not a democracy make. And that's not even mentioning the forced labor camps, arbitrary arrests, and repression of LGBT people that continued long after the revolution.

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 bitty mobs they were just kind of hovering in space medium sized mods landing on the flower but no capability to get any nectar as a reward there's one photo where the orchid just bounces out of the frame down and out of the frame up I'm like what in the world is

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 And in the past, it's incented a lot of outrage, it's incented a lot of mob behavior, it's incented a lot of group harassment. And we have to look a lot deeper at some of the fundamentals of what the service is doing to make the bigger shifts.

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 At that time, many people thought democracy was one step away from mob rule and a decision this important should be left to wiser men. These electors then voted for president. All the states had to do was get their votes in on time.

The oddities of the...

 Zimbabwean stand-up comedian in the world okay thank you thank you I need all the encouragement I can get because comedy has taken me as a mob and comedian to over 37 cities around the world applause again thank you thank you

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 Truth was confident God would protect her, but some crowds responded to her bravery with violence. During one of her sermons, a mob of white men threatened to set fire to the tent where she was speaking.

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 by natural ists is a meerkat social group from five to thirty members here the mob gathers to observe the deadly puff adder - by the way meerkats are fiercely territorial and will fight to

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 help protect salmon without the family samu could easily be eaten what happened next will never be known but it's likely the rest of the beaches mobbed or even rammed the shark with

Mob

A large or disorderly crowd of people, often with an intention of causing trouble.

Often appears as...

To crowd around someone in an excited or aggressive way.

Often appears as...

A group of people involved in organized crime.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

A flock or herd of animals, especially of sheep.

Often appears as...

Negative Connotation

Large Numbers

Disorderly Behavior

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