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lynch mob

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lynch mobnoun

    a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority

Wiktionary

  1. lynch mobnoun

    a vigilante group of people intent on lynching someone.

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  1. lynch mob

    A lynch mob is a group of people who, driven by intense anger or prejudice and without any legal authority, seek to punish an alleged offender by violent means, often including torture or murder. Such acts, commonly known as lynching, bypass the due process of law and often reflect deep-seated social tensions or biases within a community. The term has historically been associated with racial violence, particularly in the United States.

Wikidata

  1. Lynch Mob

    Lynch Mob is an American band featuring former Dokken guitarist George Lynch, who has been the band's only permanent member. The rest of the original band which featured Oni Logan, Anthony Esposito and Mick Brown have come and gone, and in some cases, come back.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lynch mob in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lynch mob in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of lynch mob in a Sentence

  1. P. J. O'Rourke:

    There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

  2. Nihad Awad:

    This is outrageous coming from someone who wants to assume the highest office in the land. It is reckless and simply un-American. Donald Trump sounds more like a leader of a lynch mob than a great nation like ours.

  3. Norma Garcia-Lopez:

    They sent a lynch mob to attack me, they want to silence me from advocating for equity, by pressuring me into resigning as co-chair of the Racial Equity Committee.

  4. Nihad Awad:

    Donald Trump sounds more like the leader of a lynch mob than a great nation like ours.

  5. David McCallister:

    There were people that disliked the Confederate battle flag before and it appears they were just looking for some opportunity to create some kind of vigilante lynch mob calling for attacks on the Confederate battle flag wherever it be located, wherever it be displayed.


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