as in to team (up)
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Recent Examples of gang up
If needed, multiple AI bots can work as a team to gang up on a person.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Putting Scooby-Doo and the gang up against real monsters creates some great storytelling opportunities.
—Robert Niles, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
But Georgi was more upset that his wife and sister continue to gang up on him.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Within a few moments, the teen wounded with his own knife reached out to friends to gang up on the person who stabbed him.
—Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Putting Scooby-Doo and the gang up against real monsters creates some great storytelling opportunities.
—Robert Niles, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
But Georgi was more upset that his wife and sister continue to gang up on him.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Within a few moments, the teen wounded with his own knife reached out to friends to gang up on the person who stabbed him.
—Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gang up
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But unlike in other disputes, the players did not hang together, expressing significant division with union leadership.—
Tracy Grant,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 May 2026
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But, for many, what is known for sure is dwarfed by what might possibly hang together.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2026
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Walk stole third and then trotted home when Camden Johnson clubbed his ninth home run of the season.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
7 June 2026
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On a cool Saturday night at UC San Diego, Romero staged a hitting clinic, clubbing a single, double and home run and knocking in two runs to lead Mater Dei Catholic to a 5-3 win over Point Loma to win its second straight Open Division championship.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2026
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As with any reform, however, the devil is in the details, and some of those details still had fans and league insiders asking questions.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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With veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins on the roster, the franchise could choose, at least initially, to let the Miami native watch and get acclimated to league.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
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In 2023, Archer settled intellectual property disputes with Boeing and its air taxi unit Wisk, and signed an agreement to collaborate on autonomous tech, and invested in the air taxi maker.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
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And one thing Deb, who spent decades prioritizing the accumulation of money over the refinement of her craft, has learned from collaborating with Ava is that, in the end, art matters more to her than business.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 May 2026
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“Gang up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gang%20up. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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