as in to team (up)
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Recent Examples of gang up
But Georgi was more upset that his wife and sister continue to gang up on him.
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Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Then, with Ashley and Rachel ganging up on him was like mean girls.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
The cumulative casualties from this and the main front ultimately overextended Napoleon, dooming his military when his adversaries simultaneously ganged up.
—S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 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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Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Then, with Ashley and Rachel ganging up on him was like mean girls.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
The cumulative casualties from this and the main front ultimately overextended Napoleon, dooming his military when his adversaries simultaneously ganged up.
—S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 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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Alba’s brother and his wife were also included in a family photo of the gang hanging together for a festive evening out.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
2 Jan. 2026
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Like Nighty Night, Such Brave Girls takes a sledgehammer to the flimsy framework of manners that keeps the British social construct (barely) hanging together, exposing the malice and envy that so often lie beneath the politeness.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
28 Dec. 2025
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Collecting vinyl, clubbing at Berghain, contemplating polyamory—this is cool.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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Since Suárez, Joey Votto and Nick Castellanos all clubbed more than 30 home runs in 2021, the Reds haven’t had a player hit more than 25 in a single season.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Beyond that, his 76 OPS+ — which translates to 24% worse than league average offensive production — ranked 11th worst in MLB among all players with at least 450 plate appearances in 2025.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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Was this initiative a hard sell to league officials and team owners?—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
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For example, if ST Engineering can make advanced vehicles in a country with more space for production plants than Singapore, the company would collaborate and teach them how to build them in a co-production effort.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2026
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Anthropic acknowledges this approach will create friction for legitimate security researchers and defensive work, and has committed to collaborating with the security community to address those challenges.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Gang up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gang%20up. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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