as in team
a group of people working together on a task
will need a platoon of assistants to mount the display at the spring flower show
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Recent Examples of platoon
Still, in my opinion, not a platoon player over the long haul of the future.
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
And then fired his last grenade and went back and joined his platoon and helped remove those that were too injured to get down there.
—Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Hunter, who signed his four-year rookie contract on Friday, will be part of the main defensive line platoon.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026
The platoon mostly applied to shortstop, where Hyeseong Kim and Miguel Rojas split time, leaving Santiago Espinal as a utility option off the bench.
—Katie Woo, New York Times, 11 May 2026
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
And then fired his last grenade and went back and joined his platoon and helped remove those that were too injured to get down there.
—Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Hunter, who signed his four-year rookie contract on Friday, will be part of the main defensive line platoon.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026
The platoon mostly applied to shortstop, where Hyeseong Kim and Miguel Rojas split time, leaving Santiago Espinal as a utility option off the bench.
—Katie Woo, New York Times, 11 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for platoon
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The Oklahoma City Thunder took on the San Antonio Spurs Saturday night to decide the Western Conference title, after a back-and-forth series that has seen both teams leading at various points.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2026
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Both teams qualified for the CIF Southern California Regional playoffs that begin Tuesday.—
Lou Ponsi,
Oc Register,
31 May 2026
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After the warning, the Lebanese army deployed to the Christian district of Tyre in an effort to prevent Israeli attacks there and to show that Hezbollah has no armed presence in the area.—
Kareem Chehayeb,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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They were worn down mile by mile, cold by cold, delay by delay until the army that existed at the end bore no resemblance to the one that had set out.—
Darshak Sanghavi,
STAT,
3 June 2026
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Many of us had been guessing that the centerpiece shoot-out confrontation of the third season would be between Laurie and Alamo’s crews.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
1 June 2026
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Inside, the ship functions like a floating city, with pilots, flight crews, cooks, doctors and firefighters all working around the clock while deployed around the world.—
Sarah Alegre,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2026
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The brigade claimed that attempts to use dirt and field roads have also struggled, as Ukrainian drones can still detect and strike vehicles off the main highways.—
David Kirichenko,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Benjamin Bowman, the brigade’s forward operations officer.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
25 May 2026
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The implosion occurred during a shift change, and the six workers whose bodies were found were in an area of the site where workers would go before their shift, Matt Amos, Longview fire battalion chief, said, per The Guardian.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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When an American battalion was trapped behind enemy lines in World War I, a pigeon delivered the coordinates that helped save the soldiers when no human messenger could.—
Kasha Patel,
CNN Money,
29 May 2026
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Argentina is one of four squads that will have a World Cup base camp in the Kansas City area, along with the Netherlands, England and Algeria.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
30 May 2026
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The neighborhood felt enormous to me back then, my squad of kids with odd names like Rattanouch and Thelonius and Simon all within walking distance.—
Winston Ross,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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“Platoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platoon. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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