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  • noun Plural form of hoard.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoard.

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Examples

  • So when we have programs that bring in hoards of foreign born workers who will work for less pay and put up with more BS, and those workers displace higher paid US born workers, causing systemic problems like high unemployment in the tech sector, decreased satisfaction with necessary customer service, etc. all in the name of corporations being efficient, reasonable people can say the system is not good.

    Protesting Globalization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • This reminds me of how dictatorial regimes quash dissent – by sending in hoards of sock-puppets parroting their repressive line.

    Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting 2009

  • Other coin hoards found outside Merovingian Gaul (at Nietap, Crondall and Dronrijp) have contained coin blanks and/or ingots along with coins, suggesting that commerce outside the Merovingian kingdom could use gold bullion alongside coins (Stahl 1992).

    The Merovingian coins from Sutton Hoo Carla 2008

  • Other coin hoards found outside Merovingian Gaul (at Nietap, Crondall and Dronrijp) have contained coin blanks and/or ingots along with coins, suggesting that commerce outside the Merovingian kingdom could use gold bullion alongside coins (Stahl 1992).

    Archive 2008-03-01 Carla 2008

  • And quoth one of them, ‘Beware of taking an old woman to wife, though she be richer in hoards than

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “This is one of the largest and most impressive coin hoards ever discovered in Jerusalem – certainly the largest and most important of its period,” archaeologists said.

    Treasure Trove! Jan 2009

  • Ben-Ami and Tchekhanovets believe, This is one of the largest and most impressive coin hoards ever discovered in Jerusalem – certainly the largest and most important of its period.

    Treasure Trove! Jan 2009

  • "This is one of the largest and most impressive coin hoards ever discovered in Jerusalem—certainly the largest and most important of its period," the directors said in a news release.

    Treasure Trove! Jan 2009

  • Large coin hoards indicate the profits of raids and trade with the British Isles, Mediterranean, Byzantium, and Muslim Asia.

    l. Scandinavia 2001

  • The nine fascinating hoards on display in the second gallery represent only a fraction of the dozens upon dozens of coin hoards from all periods that the museum stores for scholarly study.

    At the Museums: Athens' New Coin Museum 2000

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