squads

plural of squad

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of squads 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 The Volunteers have been the kingpin of Arlington ISD football the last two seasons, but several squads like Lamar, Arlington Martin and Arlington seem to have made solid offseason progress. Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2026 Butler had 12 tackles in 12 games last season, and Cooper, undrafted out of Houston in 2025, has been on the practice squads for Detroit and Cleveland but hasn’t yet appeared in a game. Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026 The two squads vying for the Julius Erving Trophy earned their way to the championship clash with impressive playoff victories against the Triplets (Ball Hogs) and the defending champion 305 (Power). Juan Carlos Blanco, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 Considering Dolphins have roughly 40 players on this training camp roster who legitimately belong on a 53-man roster, Sullivan should be aggressive with claiming players or poaching them off practice squads. Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026 Saturday’s game will be the third and final game between the two non-playoff squads this season. John W. Davis, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squads
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
Noun
  • 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
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
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

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“Squads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squads. Accessed 11 Sep. 2026.

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