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Recent Examples of gang
Noun
For Nirbhaya's mother, justice is death for the men who gang raped her daughter. Vedika Sud, CNN, 19 Mar. 2020 Jang features in the names of many quintessential Korean ingredients, such as ganging (soy sauce), gochujang (chili paste) and doenjang (soybean paste). Katie Workman, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2020
Verb
The gang violence caused displacement among more than a million Haitians, some of whom have been displaced several times. David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2025 But since then, the gang has returned, targeting retailers, insurance providers, and now airlines. Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for gang
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gang
Noun
  • At one point in the period, the teams were tied on shots at four apiece.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2025
  • Both teams made four out of five shots in the initial round of kicks.
    David Brandt, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Just jump on a return train for a few minutes back to Rougemont and a world devoid of the larger international crowds that descend upon swanky Gstaad just a few miles up the road.
    John Oseid, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • There’s an easy way to beat the line at Joe T.’s: Go before 11 a.m. and get a table before the lunch crowd wakes up.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Snuffy is the nickname of Manuel Quintero, alleged by Los Angeles County prosecutors to be a member of the Mexican Mafia, a group of about 140 men who rule over Southern California’s Latino street gangs.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
  • Cockney con man Michael Caine, recently released from the clink, puts together a truly ludicrous heist to steal $4 million in Mafia gold bullion from the middle of Turin using Mini Coopers.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • They were grouped into AI specialists (with an interest in Agri-Food) and food and agribusiness leaders (with interests in applications of AI).
    Aidan Connolly, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Vancouver, Canada Source: A ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) based on an assessment of 30 indicators grouped into five categories, including stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • No witnessing crew member backstage saw fit to pull the plug on the lights or sound, and the BBC never stopped its live coverage.
    Ruth Marks Eglash, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • By Monday evening, a fire crew of 183 succeeded in containing 30% of the fire.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Secure Folder has triggered a bunch of warnings given some issues in how it was deployed, those have been addressed.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • The handful of Falcon 9s and Atlas Vs that Amazon has on contract are the only rockets in the bunch with a proven track record.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Thailand earlier this year implemented measures to crack down on online scam operations in neighboring Myanmar, severing electricity, internet and gas supplies to border towns where the syndicates were based.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 June 2025
  • Struggling Gatekeepers: In the face of some $44 billion a year in pig-butchering scams conducted by Asian crime syndicates, U.S. banks have failed to prevent mass scale money laundering.
    Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • Devers clubbed a two-run homer on Saturday against the Boston Red Sox to give the San Francisco Giants a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • Hunters killed the birds for meat, shooting or even clubbing the docile birds to death.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025

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“Gang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gang. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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