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 Rays’ current depth chart is extremely left-handed, forcing them to choose two lefty bats who will effectively play every day alongside a heavy set of platoons. —

Derek Vanriper, New York Times, 19 Feb. 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 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. —

Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Cherry Creek’s boys and girls tennis teams once put up state-title streaks of 19 straight each.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 22 Feb. 2026
The group was never broken up into first, second and third teams, nobody dropped out, and a handful of those players ended up turning professional.

— Don Riddell, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026