1
as in batch
a number of things considered as a unit
a battery of tests to determine the cause of the medical disorder
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2
as in group
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
a battery of specialists worked on the problem until it was fixed
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Recent Examples of battery
The rally came just one day after she was served with a misdemeanor battery and assault charge.
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Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2025
In addition to the federal offense, the passenger was charged with battery, willful obstruction of law enforcement officers and criminal damage to property, inmate records show.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
But the lander did survive for a while before its batteries died.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Top-tier noise cancelation, 30-hour battery, touch controls, multipoint pairing, and adaptive sound.
—Juhi Wadia, PCMAG, 13 Mar. 2025
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Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2025
In addition to the federal offense, the passenger was charged with battery, willful obstruction of law enforcement officers and criminal damage to property, inmate records show.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
But the lander did survive for a while before its batteries died.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Top-tier noise cancelation, 30-hour battery, touch controls, multipoint pairing, and adaptive sound.
—Juhi Wadia, PCMAG, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battery
Noun
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Half of the batch of 42 adoptable animals went home with new families, according to a news release from the fair.—
Olivia Petty,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 July 2025
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These pipelines must evolve beyond rigid batch jobs toward flexible, scalable flows that support high-volume and low-latency requirements.—
Shinoy Vengaramkode Bhaskaran,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
Noun
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On Juneteenth, a group of local teenagers attended the New York Liberty’s match against the Phoenix Mercury.—
Samindra Kunti,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Meanwhile, inside the Bear, Richie goes all out to wow a group of tourists from California who want to see snow in Chicago.—
Marah Eakin,
Vulture,
27 June 2025
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If conditions are right, the clusters swirl into a storm known as a tropical wave or tropical depression.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
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Prune hydrangeas to remove old flower clusters and reshape plants when the blossoms fade 52.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2025
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
30 June 2025
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In another blow to China’s push to become a regional leader, India on Thursday rejected signing a joint statement facilitated by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization—one such grouping set up by China and Russia to counter U.S. influence.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
27 June 2025
Noun
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And developers who take on the spatial complexities of working with old architecture face a dismaying array of bureaucratic and financial challenges.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
27 June 2025
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In April, the market selloff became even more dramatic when Trump unveiled a severe array of tariffs on the U.S.’s largest trading partners.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
Noun
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All their collective buying and, especially, streaming activity has turned the band’s breakout album into a hit again.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The band repeated this sentiment a lot over the course of the one-hour set, getting the audience to chant it back to them.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
28 June 2025
Noun
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In Georgia, for example, the Georgia State Afterschool Network used its long-standing relationships with community organizations to efficiently distribute grant funds and provide technical support for data collection and analysis and high-quality programming.—
Linda Darling-Hammond,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Of course, the sort of collection that attracts scholarly attention tends toward the rare and precious rather than Izod alligators.—
Libby Buck
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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Secure Folder has triggered a bunch of warnings given some issues in how it was deployed, those have been addressed.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The handful of Falcon 9s and Atlas Vs that Amazon has on contract are the only rockets in the bunch with a proven track record.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 June 2025
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“Battery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battery. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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