Press and Scrum

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Press noun - A great number of persons or creatures massed together.

Usage example: he pushed his way through the press of people outside the courthouse

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Scrum and press are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scrum" instead a noun "Press".

Nearby Words: pressed, pressing, pressroom

Scrum noun - A great number of persons or creatures massed together.

Usage example: I had to fight my way through the scrum of holiday shoppers at the mall

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Press and scrum are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Press" instead a noun "Scrum".

The President especially would never be mobbed like this; that's what press conferences note and the Secret Service are for (in 2012, a reporter for an online publication attempted to scrum President Obama during an answer and found himself out of the White House Press Corps).

Source: Media Scrum
Whoever did it jumped over police barricades and pushed his way through a scrum of press photographers to do it, so they must have been pissed off.

Source: Perp Walk
More common in the Commonwealth than elsewhere but ubiquitous in Canadian politics, where the scrum is considered one of the central facets of parliamentary democracy and a cornerstone of freedom of the press.

Source: Media Scrum

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