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crew

noun

ˈkrü

Definition of crew

as in team

a group of people working together on a task we'll need the whole crew to stay late tomorrow

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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 Rounding out the pass catching crew, the tight end room — which entered the season with a lot of questions — left a lot to be desired in the pass game, catching one pass for four yards despite playing 85 snaps between a quartet of tight ends. — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Firefighters used foam from specialized airport firefighting units to extinguish the fire, and crews were still dealing with a fuel leak on the plane hours later. — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026 Flames and thick black smoke rose from the aircraft as rescue crews rushed in to douse it with fire retardant. — Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026 Investigators will look into possible mechanical failures, flight crew performance and weather conditions. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for crew

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In the initial complaint obtained by USA TODAY, Said claimed she was placed on an all-male team that included Gutman and two other crew members.

— Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
The latest contract builds on work that began in 2023, when GE Aerospace received initial funding for concept development and assembled the team that would work on the platform.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of team

Noun

McFarlane, Jonathan Bowlan, Orion Kerkering and the gang could then take on lesser roles.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Bakewell’s donations weren’t the only ones to pose issues for Brotherhood Crusade, which provides an array of services aimed at keeping kids from joining gangs.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of gang

Noun

In other places such as Libya and Somalia, Washington supported the national armies and local militias battling jihadi forces and engaged in whack-a-mole with jihadi leaders.

— Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026
Nor could Grossman write about collaborators or the punishment battalions composed of convicts that were used as cannon fodder (one of many parallels between the conduct of the Soviet army and the present-day Russian military in Ukraine).

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of army

Noun

Earlier in the year, the Yankees viewed Jones as a platoon bat, with nearly the entirety of his playing time coming against right-handers.

— Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
The Dodgers don’t yet plan to set up a platoon with Teoscar Hernández in left field, Roberts said, despite his struggles against right-handed pitching.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of platoon

Noun

Complex investigations to dismantle drug trafficking syndicates can require advanced equipment, Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokesperson for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, wrote in a statement.

— Aneri Pattani — KFF Health News, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026
When he's appointed interim sheriff of a tiny Minnesota town, Ulysses Richardson intervenes in a botched bank robbery, discovering a stash of gold and heavy weapons that belong to a Yakuza crime syndicate.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of syndicate

Noun

Elroy Air said the latest flights will help inform the company’s efforts to deploy autonomous heavy-cargo aircraft safely and at scale.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
While more than 100 law enforcement agencies across the country have ended their contracts with Flock Safety in recent weeks over privacy concerns, the company and the state of Georgia are deeply tied to one another.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of company

Noun

Mint is a subsidiary of T-Mobile and has access to the that carrier's massive network.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026
According to Florida corporate records cited in the lawsuit, Camero is a director and vice president of Televen International, the network’s Florida affiliate, while his father, Omar Camero Zamora, is a director and its president.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2026

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