Thesaurus results for CREWS

crews

noun

plural of crew

as in gangs

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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as in teams

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

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Recent Examples of crews Many of us had been guessing that the centerpiece shoot-out confrontation of the third season would be between Laurie and Alamo’s crews. —

Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 1 June 2026 Hopkins told The Star that crews had to cut open the roof in a few places to extinguish the fire. —

Jenna Thompson june 1, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026 While crews were able to stop the fire’s spread, the Bureau of Land Management did not have an estimate for when it would be fully extinguished. —

Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 1 June 2026 More than three decades after it was decommissioned, the silo stands as a reminder of a period when crews lived underground, waiting for a command that, fortunately, never came. —

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026 Social media posts appear to show groups of men, not affiliated with any public works crews, climbing out of manholes in various Brooklyn neighborhoods last week. —

Tom Winter, NBC news, 1 June 2026 As crews assessed the situation, the driver was heard screaming to a nearby officer that a baby was inside the vehicle. —

Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026 Late Sunday, the crews returned and were able to remove some of the tank’s insulation to get a more accurate reading of the temperature inside. —

Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026 Those layers were keeping the temperature inside the tank high, despite the cooling water that crews were spraying on it. —

Sean Emery, Oc Register, 25 May 2026

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Haiti remains in the grip of violent gangs despite recent gains in parts of Port-au-Prince.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
On the other side, De la Espriella has promised to fiercely crack down on criminal groups and build 10 megaprisons, following in a similar vein as El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, in his war on gangs, which has been beset by abuses, according to findings by human rights groups.

— Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026