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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
Workers have also been receiving free food from airline flight crews, including from Alaska Airlines pilots who delivered pizzas to controllers at the San Francisco International Airport.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
As crews work to clear out debris and get supplies to the remote region, they’ll be forced in a few short weeks to contend with Alaska’s bitter winter weather, including cold temperatures and potentially icy conditions.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
The 70-hour shutdown was allowing Caltrans crews and contractors to replace concrete, upgrade drainage and install new traffic management systems, according to the highway agency.
—Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2025
The settings increase public safety but can also increase the length of power outages since crews have to visually inspect the lines before restoring power, according to the utility.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
The highway closure is so crews can do planting and erosion-control work, MnDOT said in a press release on Friday.
—Staff Report, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2025
At the scene Sunday afternoon, crews worked to bring the fire under control, at one point ordering firefighters out of the building.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
There's crews and crews of people.
—NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
What To Know After the family’s vehicle was found at the Broads Fork parking lot, the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office began aerial search efforts, aided by Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) helicopter crews and LifeFlight.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
As crews work to clear out debris and get supplies to the remote region, they’ll be forced in a few short weeks to contend with Alaska’s bitter winter weather, including cold temperatures and potentially icy conditions.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
The 70-hour shutdown was allowing Caltrans crews and contractors to replace concrete, upgrade drainage and install new traffic management systems, according to the highway agency.
—Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2025
The settings increase public safety but can also increase the length of power outages since crews have to visually inspect the lines before restoring power, according to the utility.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
The highway closure is so crews can do planting and erosion-control work, MnDOT said in a press release on Friday.
—Staff Report, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2025
At the scene Sunday afternoon, crews worked to bring the fire under control, at one point ordering firefighters out of the building.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
There's crews and crews of people.
—NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
What To Know After the family’s vehicle was found at the Broads Fork parking lot, the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office began aerial search efforts, aided by Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) helicopter crews and LifeFlight.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crews
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Some cultural differences slipped through their eyes, and New York gangs sometimes spoke like poets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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Despite Luna establishing the Office of Constitutional Policing to root out deputy gangs, the county inspector general argued earlier this year that LASD had made no systemic effort to identify gang members within its ranks or investigate group misconduct.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
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The club has taken advantage of several of the league’s biggest teams, including Malmö, underperforming and all beating each other, Lund pointed out.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
21 Oct. 2025
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Surprisingly, both teams went into halftime with a one-score game, as the Texans were able to convert on two field goals before the second quarter clock hit zero to make it 14-6.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Even if the networks elect to tap the brakes on gambling ads in the near term, coverage of the NBA will remain a bit of a contextual minefield as long as Rozier and Billups remain in the headlines.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Varese notes that these families used to have a strong hand in the drug business, but were forced out by bigger supplier networks, significantly limiting their power and reach, which explains their involvement in smaller enterprises like gambling rings.—
Time,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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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
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He and Pat were assigned to different platoons and rarely saw each other.—
Talia McWright,
Twin Cities,
17 Oct. 2025
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major drug smuggling hub despite having some of the strictest drug laws in the world, in part because international drug syndicates target its young population.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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In the 2000s and 2010s, small funds and angel syndicates thrived.—
Roman Axelrod,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
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And, while large-scale armies were attacking one another with a vast arsenal of technological advancements, De Stijl architects and theorists were observing great opportunities for a better world based on this massive scale and these new technologies.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Oct. 2025
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Comcast One of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies, the conglomerate owns NBCUniversal, which includes film studios such as Universal Pictures and DreamWorks, cable channels such as CNBC and Bravo, as well as Peacock, a streaming platform.—
Melanie Hicken,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Plutonium will be converted into nuclear fuel The report highlighted that the department has allowed domestic nuclear energy companies to request up to 19 metric tons of plutonium from Cold War-era stockpiles.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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In classical antiquity, the mountainous region was notorious for bandits; in modern times, blood feuds among clans were rife.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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But Gaza is home to numerous clans and militant groups, with score-settling and criminality posing a threat to order in the Palestinian enclave, even after the ceasefire.—
Christian Orozco,
NBC news,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Crews.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crews. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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