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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Fourth-and-8 isn’t really a great spot to risk a turnover on downs, but with kickoff touchbacks placing teams at the 35-yard line, a turnover at the 39-yard line isn’t particularly damning by comparison.—
Mike Kaye
September 10,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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TeamSmile is a nonprofit organization that brings oral health professionals together with professional sports teams to help deliver oral health procedures to underserved children.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Reinforcements would need to be prepared for future deployments, and European armies would need another 30,000 or so troops in training.—
Daniel R. DePetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Aeneas’s military struggles against the Rutulians echo the wars of Rome against foreign invading armies, such as Carthage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To counter the explosive projectiles, Russian tank crews began mounting homemade cages above their turrets to cushion the tanks from blasts.—
Marco Hernandez,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The fire suppression efforts involve 20 engines, two water tenders and eight hand crews.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The squads would play each other in 12-minute quarter games, according to ESPN.—
Jenna West,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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In addition to Miami and Chicago, there are squads representing Dallas, Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, Houston, and the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) region.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 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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In due course the informality and loosening of the customs around dressing would take people all the way to grunge and eventually, in the new millennium, put CEOs of multimillion-dollar companies in hoodies.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Pakam connects waste companies with a tracking and payments program.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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The overwhelming pattern is that what China showcases at Tiananmen becomes reality in squadrons, brigades, and fleets.—
Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Still, these cracks in the coalition have not caused a shift in the brigades’ determination to fight.—
Leila Seurat,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Platoons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platoons. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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