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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 Government troops also conducted raids in various areas Thursday and killed 10 militants believed to be members of the Pakistani Taliban, the military and police said. — Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026 Donna Smith, McAuley’s first coach, and a few members of the first state championship team were honored before Friday’s match. — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026 The members of Model/Actriz are credited for instrumental contributions to several other tracks on Bass Persuades, too. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026 Other than Uthmeier’s no-comment, prosecutors haven’t publicly discussed the Broward subpoenas, which were sent to the mayor, the entire commission, top members of the administration and aviation officials. — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026 Electric rates for both Eversource and United Illuminating are officially set by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, which is made up of five members all appointed by Lamont. — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 18 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
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
  • These chemical molecules selectively bind with particular rare earth elements during processing, helping operators separate them from mixed feedstocks.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
  • From Ryan and Myers to directors Adam Arkin, guest starring as a shady lawyer to boot, and Nina Lopez-Corrado, everybody on American Hostage deserves credit for introducing all these good elements.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 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 20 Sep. 2026.

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