as in entourage
a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person a popular teen and his ever-present posse of pals

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Recent Examples of posse As Kraft and his posse grimly passed the entrance, the last stragglers of the losing Patriots were heading into the room — the owner and players going in opposite directions and the same direction all at once. Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024 These talents added to the posse of celebrities — spanning from Beyoncé and Rihanna to Kylie Minogue and Alicia Keys — that Koma has dressed over the years with his namesake brand and who might bring additional visibility to Blumarine now, too. Sandra Salibian, WWD, 16 Jan. 2025 After all, this son of ornery Nevada ranching patriarch and fellow armed stand-off artist Cliven Bundy applied, while on trial in Oregon, for the right of he and his posse to present from their cells in culturally and personally appropriate clothing. Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024 For revenge, an armed posse stormed into the Serrano village — even though the Serranos were not involved in the fighting — and chased the inhabitants to Chimney Rock, near Lucerne Valley. Calmatters, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for posse

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“Posse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posse. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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