crew

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as in gang
a group involved in secret or criminal activities when one boy turned informant, the police were able to nab the drug kingpin and the rest of his crew

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Recent Examples of crew There was a delay of the game while the arena crew cleaned Eriksson Ek’s blood off the ice in front of the Wild crease. Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025 The crew reportedly used a freight elevator to access a room in the Apollo Gallery, which houses part of the French Crown Jewels. Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025 Brockman and the crew got to work. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025 No defensive front has been generating pressure like Vance Joseph’s crew since Buddy Ryan’s 1980s Bears. Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crew
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Noun
  • More than 60% of the capital's health facilities, including Haiti's general hospital, are now shuttered or non-functioning because of the surge in gang violence.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In the current funding lapse — which is already longer than most previous government shutdowns — those gangs are nowhere to be found.
    Emily Wilkins, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This month, the team began landing equipment to start building the 3-mile road from the coast to the first well.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Williams, a third-team All-NBA and second-team All-Defensive selection last season, tore the scapholunate ligament in his wrist on April 9 but put off surgery until after the Thunder’s historic run.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The series follows the Black Mafia Family in Detroit and is based on a true story.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • On the surface, the crime drama follows the rise and fall of the Black Mafia Family — one of the most influential crime families in the country.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The army of volunteers — from every state in the country — hit 484 of the 535 Senate and House offices.
    Noam Levey, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Netflix has built up the largest army of game titles to adapt in recent years.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Buford spent years immersing himself in the world of British hooligan soccer syndicates.
    Ed Lavandera, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In the 2000s and 2010s, small funds and angel syndicates thrived.
    Roman Axelrod, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Omer’s tank platoon was overrun by militants and he was killed, however his parents only learned of his death more than a year later.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • One of the kids, an athletic-looking teenager named Ladislav, told me that 1654 is organized into platoons that train with Kraken commanders.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Tunnels story is that Chinese immigrants built a network of tunnels under the city because they were forced to live underground; the tunnels were then used by gangsters and bootleggers, including Al Capone.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The benefits of that blockbuster merger, which gave Capital One a proprietary payments network to lessen its reliance on Mastercard and Visa over time, are at the heart of our investment thesis.
    Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • Ingraham was additionally designated as the future chair of the company's compensation committee, which could give her a key role in determining the compensation of officers and directors.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Moog’s lightweight turret, with its focus on mobility, commonality, and rapid adaptability, positions the company as a key contributor to that evolving vision for next-generation air defense.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Crew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crew. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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