Press
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
Swarm is a synonym for press in crowd topic. In some cases you can use "Swarm" instead the word "Press" as a noun or a verb or an adjective, when it comes to topics like horde, big, converge.
Swarm
Swarm noun - A great number of persons or creatures massed together.
Usage example: a swarm of tourists descends upon the island every summer
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Synonyms for Swarm
Press is a synonym for swarm in crowd topic. You can use "Press" instead the word "Swarm" as a noun or a verb or an adjective, if it concerns topics such as large, big.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| small | small press | small swarm |
| real | real press | real swarm |
| large | large press | large swarm |
| huge | huge press | huge swarm |
| Other adjectives: new, mysterious. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Even more, Robertson plays dirty and any bad PR for Phil ends up having a swarm of press covering it.
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As they cross the George Washington Bridge, they are stopped so that a swarm of press photographers can take their picture for being the five-millionth car to cross the bridge.
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A vintage Whitney Darrow cartoon for The New Yorker magazine has a trio of robbers emerging from a bank with their loot, to face an encircling cordon of heavily-armed police, a swarm of press vehicles and about a thousand rubberneckers.
Source: Understatement
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