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members

noun

plural of member
1
as in factors
one of the parts that make up a whole you're only one member of this group effort

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2
as in parts
one of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled lost an indispensable member of the model airplane kit

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Recent Examples of members The fourth plane was headed for Washington, officials concluded, but the aircraft went down in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew members stormed the cockpit and fought the hijackers. — Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026 Grant and two other members of Banks’s entourage made plea deals and testified against the rapper during the trial. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2026 Afterward, in an annual tradition, Smith and Patricia will join around 50 family members for a meal. — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026 The pick was made by a Selection Committee drawn from eligible members of the Singapore Film Commission Advisory Committee (SFCAC). — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026 Trump’s allegations of massive voting fraud have been refuted by a variety of judges, state election officials and members of his first administration who were in office during the 2020 election. — Melissa Goldin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026 At a mosque in Seattle, Muslim worshippers are greeted by members of other faiths bringing them flowers. — Reshma Memon Yaqub, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 At the scene, officers saw the man walking along the bridge cables, and Emergency Services Unit members climbed onto the cables and tried to speak with him for almost an hour, Dowling said. — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026 Last year, during an event in the Oval Office with the President of Finland, members of the press pool noticed a map of the National Mall on the Resolute Desk, showing plans for an arch opposite the Lincoln Memorial. — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for members
  1. factors
  2. parts
  3. components
  4. portions
  5. elements
  6. segments
  7. ingredients
  8. sections
Noun
  • Those factors help determine which exposures warrant commercial transfer and which the company can retain or finance through another structure.
    — Randy Sadler, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Iren's neocloud contracts are now valued at $15 to $20 per watt or higher, depending on their duration and the extent of graphics processing unit generation, among other factors, per JPMorgan.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of factors
Noun
  • While cost is an important factor, service reliability and the availability of spare parts are also important considerations for truck carriers, and overhauling an entire fleet is a major investment.
    — Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
  • That could make fleets of relatively inexpensive autonomous vessels useful for building persistent datasets across parts of the ocean that are poorly monitored today.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of parts
Noun
  • Similarly, pyrometers and aerospace instrumentation can require durable optical windows that allow infrared or other optical measurements while protecting sensitive internal components from harsh external conditions.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Stark says the reduction comes from controls and fasteners rather than unsprung or rotating components, so suspension and wheel-control characteristics remain unchanged.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of components
Noun
  • The latest delay came after Caltrans determined that portions of the highway surface required additional smoothing, a Caltrans spokesperson told Abridged.
    — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Harris has also said UCLA needs significantly more season-ticket holders, with a longer-term goal of removing the tarps covering portions of the Rose Bowl’s unused seating.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of portions
Noun
  • The shoe also covers a majority of the foot to protect from the elements, despite the open toe.
    — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Both art forms weave several different elements into a harmonious, thematic whole.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of elements
Noun
  • Analyst Gavin Parsons said that Lockheed Martin is set to see growth across several business segments, setting the company up to potentially double-digit upside to earnings per share consensus estimates in 2028.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Helping understand mutations in DNA’s vast ‘non-coding’ segments DNA provides the recipe for the proteins a living cell can make.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of segments
Noun
  • Spirit’s archive could supply ingredients for such tasks, for example, an IT ticket linked to a Teams discussion, a code change and an operational result.
    — Wen Shao, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The menu celebrates modern Anatolian cuisine using regional ingredients and traditional recipes with a contemporary twist.
    — Vicki Power, TheWeek, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of ingredients
Noun
  • Instead, they were restricted to either the north or south sections, which are divided by the highway running over the track.
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • This work later proved that prime numbers, while randomly scattered in small sections of the number line, appear to be regularly arranged over sufficiently large intervals.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
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“Members.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/members. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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