as in entourage
a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person
a campaign bus carrying the candidate, her retinue, and a gaggle of reporters and bloggers
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Recent Examples of retinue
The Driskill even has its very own retinue of weeping female ghosts.
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Rona Berg, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Early in the last campaign cycle, a retinue of Fox hosts and contributors promoted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over Trump, leading to a rift between the two.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
Political elites—politicians and their retinues, interest groups, campaign donors, and media that stir up readers by applauding one side—orchestrated this process.
—Jonathan Schlefer, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2021
He was taken to Manhattan by helicopter and met at the helipad by a massive retinue of heavily armed police led by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
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Rona Berg, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Early in the last campaign cycle, a retinue of Fox hosts and contributors promoted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over Trump, leading to a rift between the two.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
Political elites—politicians and their retinues, interest groups, campaign donors, and media that stir up readers by applauding one side—orchestrated this process.
—Jonathan Schlefer, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2021
He was taken to Manhattan by helicopter and met at the helipad by a massive retinue of heavily armed police led by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retinue
entourage
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So, the fact that Viola has her entourage and her followers, and this idea of everyone who’s taken the potion lives within her palace.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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In 2012 he was involved in a brawl with Drake and his entourage at a N.Y. nightclub that injured eight people, followed by an altercation with Frank Ocean over a parking space in West Hollywood in 2013.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
15 May 2025
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“Retinue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retinue. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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