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as in team
a group of people working together on a task
a gang of neighborhood residents spent the weekend cleaning up the park
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as in clique
a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially
the whole gang went out for pizza the school's computer hackers had their own little gang
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Recent Examples of gang
Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
Investigators later determined that four gang members confronted rival gang members who were attending a baby shower in the courtyard at the address.
—Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
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
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Noun
Factors such as poverty, weak institutions and social exclusion, coupled with surging armed violence, have created an environment where children are increasingly at risk of being trafficked by gangs.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
Investigators later determined that four gang members confronted rival gang members who were attending a baby shower in the courtyard at the address.
—Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
Verb
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gang
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Both teams won their first games of the tournament.—
David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Mar. 2026
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The visit is also an opportunity to model activities that parents can do at home with their kids, such as reading a book aloud, said Carneshia Edwards, who leads the hospital's kindergarten readiness team.—
MAKIYA SEMINERA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
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In the post-colonial era, Arab dictators established secular laws, but these legal systems favored the ruling clique.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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Their parties became notorious even in my own cliques; my parents knew to expect at least a few dozen teenagers crashing their party, sucking down all the noodles, and sneaking beers in the canyon down below.—
Natasha Pickowicz,
Vogue,
20 Feb. 2026
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The series follows the Black Mafia Family in Detroit and is based on a true story.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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On the surface, the crime drama follows the rise and fall of the Black Mafia Family — one of the most influential crime families in the country.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Why Fiberlayering Is Better Than Fibermaxxing Fiber is often grouped as soluble, insoluble, and resistant starch.—
Kathleen Ferraro,
Verywell Health,
5 Mar. 2026
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The Dominican Republic and Venezuela are grouped together in Pool D along with the Netherlands, Nicaragua and Israel at Miami’s loanDepot park.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
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Official statement confirms crew safety In a statement posted on X on Monday, the Kuwait Ministry of Defense addressed the incident.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Mar. 2026
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All six crew members ejected safely, US Central Command said.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
2 Mar. 2026
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There are still moments of showy technical prowess (including crowd scenes where thousands of butterflies fly across the screen at one time), but the film’s rounded and adorable character designs for its animals prove refreshingly simple.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
2 Mar. 2026
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Just over a year ago, the city also reopened Sixth Street to vehicle traffic on weekends, reversing years of street closures that had been put in place to accommodate heavy nightlife crowds.—
Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
2 Mar. 2026
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Atterton wanted to use the hijacking as an opportunity to take out not only Sam but Bailey-Brown, removing any other trace of the Kingdom hijacking in the first season, and establishing his dominance over the Cheapside Firm, an international crime syndicate based in London.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
4 Mar. 2026
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Recent Mexican history is riddled with the tales of once-powerful syndicates — gangs in Guadalajara, Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, among them — that ruptured, were gobbled up by other mobs or petered out as the big guys were captured or killed.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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An inning later, Judge clubbed another two-run dinger off Ricky Vanasco.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Enter Sheila, a street magician blackballed by the local boys club who wows Lincoln with her tips-only act.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Gang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gang. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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