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
  • This difference of faith in the capabilities of competent government versus private entities has provided the space for the DSA to become more popular.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Similarly operating without a commissioner to keep things on track and keep the greater good at the forefront, horse racing entities also solved only for themselves.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Thursday’s best performances spread the entire field, with six different men leading the six individual apparatus races.
    Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Three men in their 70s were slightly injured — two of them were caught in the wind and a third one fell from a stool, apparently blown off by the wind while preparing for the storm, the Okinawa prefecture said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The service Casually buttoned-up and (like many other things at this property) classic New York, with concierge and servers always ready to lend a hand—but without fussing over anything.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Is this the same Panthea who hates anyone fake or putting things on?
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 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
  • To break through the water’s tight molecular network, the escaping CO2 relies on nucleation sites—microscopic rough spots, impurities, or foreign objects that disrupt the arrangement of water molecules and allow gas molecules to easily cluster.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • An executor may have a deadline and dozens or hundreds of objects to dispose of.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Between 2000 and 2020, at least 1,160 elephants died in incidents linked to self-defense or retaliatory killings as communities sought to protect their crops, property and lives, the Plan notes.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The movie stars Stewart and Alia Shawkat as codependent, marijuana-loving best friends who get caught in a case of mistaken identity that throws their lives into chaos.
    Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 6 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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“Individuals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individuals. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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