as in teams
a group of people working together on a task
a clean-up brigade put the parish hall back in good order
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Recent Examples of brigades
Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
Acción Andina has involved roughly 40,000 local stewards who run tree nurseries, join tree-planting brigades and protect trees from livestock and wildfires.
—Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Tellingly, both Hamas and Fatah, the two dominant Palestinian movements today, have rockets and brigades named in Qassam’s honor.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Freed Israeli hostages stand on stage with fighters of the Islamic Jihad and Ezz al-Din Al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, before being handed over to representatives of the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on February 15, 2025.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Still, these cracks in the coalition have not caused a shift in the brigades’ determination to fight.
—Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
On Tuesday, Ukrainian brigades carried out a coordinated drone strike on a Russian fuel train in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region – sending plumes of black smoke billowing into the air for miles around – in an effort to sabotage the supply lines for a potential Russian advance.
—Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
Mobilization has stalled, with brigades undermanned, and desertion in the ranks is a mounting problem.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
For their efforts, life has imitated art, as Huntr/x has now stolen the show from not one but two cloyingly chipper bro brigades.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
Fragmented response The response to the armed gangs in Haiti has been fragmented, with the government turning to private armed contractors and citizens setting up vigilante brigades.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
Acción Andina has involved roughly 40,000 local stewards who run tree nurseries, join tree-planting brigades and protect trees from livestock and wildfires.
—Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Tellingly, both Hamas and Fatah, the two dominant Palestinian movements today, have rockets and brigades named in Qassam’s honor.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Freed Israeli hostages stand on stage with fighters of the Islamic Jihad and Ezz al-Din Al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, before being handed over to representatives of the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on February 15, 2025.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Still, these cracks in the coalition have not caused a shift in the brigades’ determination to fight.
—Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
On Tuesday, Ukrainian brigades carried out a coordinated drone strike on a Russian fuel train in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region – sending plumes of black smoke billowing into the air for miles around – in an effort to sabotage the supply lines for a potential Russian advance.
—Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
Mobilization has stalled, with brigades undermanned, and desertion in the ranks is a mounting problem.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
For their efforts, life has imitated art, as Huntr/x has now stolen the show from not one but two cloyingly chipper bro brigades.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brigades
Noun
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The Buffalo Bills are off to a great start this season with a 4-0 record and are one of just two remaining undefeated teams.—
Shaun McAvoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Like the Signature Slim Solar+ K980, there’s also an MX Master 4 for Business variant that offers compatibility with Logi Tune and Logitech Sync, two Logitech platforms designed to help IT teams monitor, manage, and optimize Logitech devices.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Similarly to Dillon, the town of Vail boasts a state-of-the-art amphitheater that bands forgo radius clauses to perform at.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
1 Sep. 2025
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Then, this summer, bands Deerhoof and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard pulled their catalogues, citing Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek’s nearly $700 million investment in defense company Helsing, which makes military drones and AI defense software.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Vogt is all but certain to win again, despite Hinch’s deft handling of the Tigers’ tricky platoons across the board.—
Ryan Ford,
Freep.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Trump’s grandiose displays of brute force—the massing of weapons of war and platoons of masked, unidentified combat fighters targeting the very civilian populations they are commissioned to protect—does not bring reassurance.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Yet, the community rallies and moves heaven and earth to find a missing white woman.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
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As the entertainment community rallies behind Jimmy Kimmel in the wake of ABC’s sudden yanking of his late-night show at the behest of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, pressing questions remain about his immediate future on the network.—
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The initiative highlights how the war in Ukraine blurs the line between civilian tech and military hardware, as armies seek to field cost-effective solutions of industrial strain and battlefield urgency.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Recent history in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq suggests that insurgencies can wear down regular armies over time.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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This recipe piles them on, casting apples — which are starting to appear at farmers markets — and nuts front and center as main characters supported by a chorus of greens.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Sep. 2025
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That’s where the paperwork piles up, court fees skyrocket, and grieving families are forced into bureaucratic limbo for months — sometimes years.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Sylvia said fire crews had to access the scene by driving in the wrong direction from 59th Street.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Emergency medical crews took the man to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The future belongs to a smaller pool of elite innovators — not vast back-office battalions.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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For some battalions, including Prickly’s, this represents a sea change.—
Tamar Jacoby,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Brigades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brigades. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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