individuals

plural of individual

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Recent Examples of individuals Ries argues that leadership transitions succeed not because remarkable individuals take over, but because organizations have embedded their purpose deeply enough to survive leadership change. Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Until a decade ago, the shadow docket was used only occasionally, mainly for true emergency applications—such as capital cases in which individuals faced imminent execution. Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 While Spanish police escorted most of the individuals back to Morocco with the help of Moroccan authorities, the European far right quickly latched on to the episode as fodder to further fuel its anti-migrant policies. Kelsey Norman, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026 Families should be cautious about signing documents, paying unverified individuals or accepting guarantees about release or case outcomes. Ascend Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026 Then individuals tied to the congressman and Patty García challenged the petition signatures of Macías and Sigcho-López. Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026 Misdemeanor charges for three people dropped The other individuals involved in vandalism cases haven't spoken out publicly. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026 And there were also private individuals who are curious about how to invest in culture and in film in particular. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026 According to Fusaro, the license plate readers have been used to quickly resolve Amber alerts and to find missing runaways or individuals with dementia who wander off, including those who have made it across state lines. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for individuals
Noun
  • Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.
    Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • The data center will still pay traditional property tax, as well as the business personal property tax to other taxing entities.
    Olivia Young, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The company has referred more than 200 entities to the FDA, the US Department of Justice, state attorneys general, law enforcement and professional licensing boards.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • He was seized by three unidentified men, who later headed toward the western Tillaberi region of Niger, where Islamist militants are active, Reuters news agency reported at the time, citing an unnamed diplomat.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • These men must be honored for producing innovative products that improve millions of people’s lives.
    Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The City of Atlanta and Fulton County’s Board of Commissioners have been trading negotiations over the sale of the Atlanta City Detention Center, and things have started to get ugly.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The month of August offers some respite, a chance to reflect and reset before September kicks things into gear once more.
    Sophie Lou Wilson, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • All these guys, all my teammates, all my coaches, everybody in this building loves it.
    Sam Warren, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Finding all these guys, and so many more peppering the scene, served as an important reminder.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • These lines can represent the paths taken by objects moving in two dimensions, like balls traveling around a billiard table.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Observed a mere 660 million years after the big bang, MoM-BH*-1 is among the earliest of these objects known.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Digital media and the people who star in it have been cultural mainstays for teens’ entire lives, so creating social media, video or podcast content seems a natural, albeit nontraditional, career path.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • These men must be honored for producing innovative products that improve millions of people’s lives.
    Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Johnson was suspended for 10 games by the NFL in 2016 for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Overconfidence may add risk Such user errors are an underappreciated danger of using these substances.
    C. Michael White, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026

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