as in teams
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 platoons
Trump’s grandiose displays of brute force—the massing of weapons of war and platoons of masked, unidentified combat fighters targeting the very civilian populations they are commissioned to protect—does not bring reassurance.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Russian assault platoons are rushing behind ukrainian lines.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Russian assault platoons are rushing behind ukrainian lines.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for platoons
Noun
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The big focus from the new rules are on things related to teams of super heroes.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Lloyd is 100 percent correct that throwing him into his first start against any of those teams could end up being a massive mistake and could set him up for failure.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In desperate need of shelf-stable foods to feed his armies, Napoléon Bonaparte offered a reward of 12,000 francs to anyone who could invent a new method of food preservation.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
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Bluesky, part of the decentralized internet, is slower paced and caters to niche interests, rewarding internecine fights over minutiae, whereas X is deliberately chaotic, encouraging the gathering of follower-armies and ideological insult-comedy for an audience that may be largely made up of bots.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The elite Rubicon drone formation has been targeting logistics hubs on the Pokrovsk–Kostiantynivka front, cutting off resupply to frontline drone crews.—
David Kirichenko,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Around 18 firefighter crews responded to the scene and searched for several hours for victims, while residents were evacuated from the area following the blast, El País reported.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The game was the District 3-5A Division II openers for both squads and the Cougars are 3-0 overall and 1-0 in district play for the second year in a row.—
Cody Thorn,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Sep. 2025
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Both teams expect to be playing deep into January (and maybe into February if things go right), so this prime-time showdown will be a good litmus test for both squads.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That would imply three missile-firing battalions and six to nine nuclear-capable ICBMs, such as the Hwasong-15 or Hwasong-18.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
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While the arc of Agu’s transformation is tragic and the story of the civil war and its battalions of child soldiers is wide in scope, the power of the novel lies in its immersion.—
Katie Kitamura
August 21,
Literary Hub,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And just like historical colonialism, this influence flows primarily in one direction – from powerful tech companies to the rest of us.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Florida Republican also called for social media companies to take down the videos capturing the moments he was shot.—
Amy DeLaura,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Tellingly, both Hamas and Fatah, the two dominant Palestinian movements today, have rockets and brigades named in Qassam’s honor.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Freed Israeli hostages stand on stage with fighters of the Islamic Jihad and Ezz al-Din Al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, before being handed over to representatives of the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on February 15, 2025.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Platoons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platoons. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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