platoons

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 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 Outfield requires far more starting spots, and most of those available later in drafts are locked in platoons. Dalton Del Don, New York Times, 6 Mar. 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 Vogt is all but certain to win again, despite Hinch’s deft handling of the Tigers’ tricky platoons across the board. Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for platoons
Noun
  • The contract includes a limited no-trade clause, blocking eight teams without consent.
    Mac Engel July 26, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 July 2026
  • Most leadership teams cannot answer this, and the exercise usually surfaces more exposure than expected.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Noun
  • The Hightower high lord and his armies have occupied Tumbleton and have Rhaenyra in something of a bind.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • Sauron’s armies have marched across the whole of the world, conquering all in their path.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026
Noun
  • Construction crews have pre-positioned supplies — including the steel bollard wall panels — but no actual wall-building has started in the area.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
  • In particular, it's conceived as a way of keeping valuable attack helicopters like the AH-54 Apache and their crews away from the heat of combat while acting as force multipliers to make the helicopter much more effective.
    David Szondy July 21, New Atlas, 21 July 2026
Noun
  • Bouncing between active rosters and practice squads for five teams over the past three seasons, Ameer Speed was signed by Dallas after a strong UFL campaign for the Houston Gamblers.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026
  • The two best squads advance to a second and final round to settle things head-to-head.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • The Israeli army built another five battalions of soldiers who were never engaged in service or finished their service and wish to return to duty.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
  • These religious sites and sacred areas throughout Ukraine have not been used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces or Ukrainian volunteer battalions as staging grounds to fight against Russian forces.
    Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • As is true for many other industries in China, intense competition at home is driving companies to expand globally.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
  • Other companies that have ALPRs include Axon, PlateSmart, Innova Systems, Perceptics, and Jenoptik.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
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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