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.
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Robert Niles,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
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
Within a few moments, the teen wounded with his own knife reached out to friends to gang up on the person who stabbed him.
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Sheetal Banchariya,
New York Daily News,
7 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gang up
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
See All Example Sentences for gang up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gang up
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Everyone is having a good hang together.
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But unlike in other disputes, the players did not hang together, expressing significant division with union leadership.
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The only offense against Burns came in the third inning, when Ben Rice clubbed his 22nd home run to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
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Jurors deliberated for a week before voting to convict 48-year-old Francesca Lopez in the death of Felipe Lopez-Custodio, who was clubbed to death with a piece of scrap wood and strangled with a cord inside his apartment on Jacqueline Way in Concord.
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The leagued released a scheduling matrix with KU playing 18 Big 12 games.
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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.
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Haiti’s business community has long been criticized for monopolistic practices and a reluctance to collaborate.
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Banks, whose leaders have long raised similar concerns, have been collaborating with the Treasury Department and Fed for years to develop other ways financial institutions could transfer funds in the event of a potentially disastrous outage.
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“Gang up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gang%20up. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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