Thesaurus results for PLATOONS

platoons

noun

plural of platoon

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 The Phillies will run outfield platoons in left and center for the remainder of the season. — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Multiple schools across three states will soon have their own veritable platoons of pepper-spraying drones to hunt down active shooters, The Washington Post reports, waiting to spring into action the moment they’re called on. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 July 2026 In the coming years, as Erik Neander took over the baseball operations department, the Rays were at the forefront of analytics with defensive shifts, aggressive platoons, utilizing openers, creating a menagerie of arm slots in the bullpen and, yes, prioritizing exit velocity. — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026 According to the Defense official, the Army plans to ramp up training over the next year, eventually sending in platoons of some 40 soldiers at a time to train. — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2025 The white officers in the 24 companies overseeing the volunteer platoons were also initially skeptical. — Time, 5 Nov. 2025 One of the kids, an athletic-looking teenager named Ladislav, told me that 1654 is organized into platoons that train with Kraken commanders. — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025 He and Pat were assigned to different platoons and rarely saw each other. — Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025 Avivi said that gathering information on Hamas terrorists and the organization’s structure has been an ongoing effort for years, including mapping platoons, companies, and battalions, as well as identifying commanders. — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025

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Noun

The reason most teams stop there is not indifference as much as compromise.

— Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The Wall Street Journal and the Athletic reported Walter used billions of dollars of those insurance premiums to buy sports teams.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of teams

Noun

In other places such as Libya and Somalia, Washington supported the national armies and local militias battling jihadi forces and engaged in whack-a-mole with jihadi leaders.

— Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026
Big Ridley commands armies of extras, builds enormous sets and deploys cutting-edge visual effects to create places that no longer exist — or never did.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of armies

Noun

The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van used to shuttle cleaning crews to planes, authorities said.

— David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Traffic delays are expected as crews work to clear the scene.

— Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of crews

Noun

Sunderland, of course, spent heavily last season after coming up from the Championship, and there is a broad consensus that promoted teams need to do so to quickly bring their squads up to scratch.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Eight of the top 10 largest stadiums in the world sit on college campuses, but college teams are far more regionalized than NFL squads.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of squads

Noun

Nor could Grossman write about collaborators or the punishment battalions composed of convicts that were used as cannon fodder (one of many parallels between the conduct of the Soviet army and the present-day Russian military in Ukraine).

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
In northern Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts, Russian forces are reportedly disbanding some tank battalions and reallocating younger servicemembers to drone units, while assigning other personnel to assault units.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of battalions

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Enter the relationships with companies that seek to improve the health of people who may or may not compete in sports.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Last month, his companies became the focus of two federal inquiries and a Delaware insurance regulatory review.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of companies

Noun

So far, no mainstream Democratic politician has seemed willing to stir up the hornet’s nest by taking on the progressive brigades.

— David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
In their Two Marines Substack newsletter, Lee and Putiata describe Drone Line, a concept that grouped Russian drone units by depth behind the front rather than attaching them to individual brigades.

— David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

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