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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
First responders from the agency, the local police department and EMS crews were dispatched to the building to help rescue the woman, who was in an unknown location.
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Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
After crews completed a systems check following each delay, the attraction was reopened to guests shortly after.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
The area where the fire is burning is steep and rugged, which is causing challenges for fire crews on the ground.
—Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 8 June 2026
Construction crews began tearing down the East Wing in October to make way for the 90,000-square-foot facility.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
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
Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
After crews completed a systems check following each delay, the attraction was reopened to guests shortly after.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
The area where the fire is burning is steep and rugged, which is causing challenges for fire crews on the ground.
—Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 8 June 2026
Construction crews began tearing down the East Wing in October to make way for the 90,000-square-foot facility.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crews
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He was known as a pugnacious investigator who had dismantled some of the country’s most violent gangs.—
Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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It was originally used by gangs to try to avoid police detection, but has since become rooted in their national identity, AFP has reported.—
Tom Burrows,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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And many young soccer fans will get the chance to cheer on those teams while standing on the grandest stage itself.—
Chelsea Torres,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
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Solak, who has now played at least one game with five different MLB teams, pinch-hit for Will Wagner in the fifth inning.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 June 2026
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Across movie studios, television networks and content production firms, AI creators CNBC spoke to mentioned using a wide variety of generative AI tools, with Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Kling, MiniMax, Seedance and Google’s AI Studio being frequently mentioned.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
11 June 2026
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The panel’s antitrust subcommittee considered whether the professional football league overstretched its antitrust exemption under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 by pooling the television rights for all 32 teams into a package that is then sold to various cable networks and streaming services.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
10 June 2026
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In the coming years, as Erik Neander took over the baseball operations department, the Rays were at the forefront of analytics with defensive shifts, aggressive platoons, utilizing openers, creating a menagerie of arm slots in the bullpen and, yes, prioritizing exit velocity.—
John Romano,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 May 2026
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Outfield requires far more starting spots, and most of those available later in drafts are locked in platoons.—
Dalton Del Don,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Alongside that, South Africa’s police force has been embroiled in scandal, accused of corruption and collusion with criminal syndicates.—
Michelle Gumede,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
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Applying terrorism designations to criminal syndicates, Brazilian officials say, conflicts with domestic legal definitions and risks blurring distinctions underpinning international counterterrorism law.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
1 June 2026
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Also in part to serve the interests of those people who had lent money to the Union armies.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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But, unlike armies of antiquity, modern armies depend on an extraordinarily complex web of fuel, ammunition, spare parts, maintenance crews, communications, transport, and increasingly autonomous systems operating across multiple domains simultaneously.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
9 June 2026
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The event consists of live music, competition events such as highland dancing and sheepdog trials, food vendors and educational classes on what Scottish clans are.—
Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2026
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Publishers Coolabi Group and Chinese online giant Tencent Video have greenlit the series, adapted from Erin Hunter’s novels about battling clans of feral cats, which have sold more than 90 million copies worldwide.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
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The German government acknowledged the companies’ inability to cooperate on the jet but, speaking at the Berlin Air Show this week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz struck an optimistic tone, looking ahead to what the countries could still achieve with the rest of the FCAS project.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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Great companies generate jobs, industries, infrastructure, technological capability, and ecosystems that shape economic growth for decades.—
Dileep Rao,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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