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 were also at the forefront of other innovations and/or adjustments, such as defensive shifts, lineup platoons, matchup bullpens, star-quality super-utility players and putting a numbers nerd (technically a process and analytics coach) in the dugout. —

Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 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

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After Minnesota killed the first penalty of the game — an accomplishment of note with the way the Wild penalty kill was torched in the first two games — Kaprizov opened the scoring with the teams skating 4-on-4, completing a speedy rush to the net after a set-up pass from Faber.

— Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 10 May 2026
The teams that Weltman has constructed over the past nine years have, in my view, consistently lacked good 3-point shooting or an athletic presence at center.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2026