teams 1 of 2

noun

plural of team
as in crews
a group of people working together on a task asked the Boy Scouts to split into teams and begin pitching their tents

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teams

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verb

present tense third-person singular of team
as in groups

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Recent Examples of teams
Noun
Here’s the Week 0 Fort Worth-area high school football scores including teams from area districts. — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Aug. 2026 The location pros behind Best Picture Oscar winner One Battle After Another and nominee Marty Supreme won the film prizes at the 2026 LMGI Awards, with the Pluribus, Fallout and Black Rabbit teams taking TV honors. — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2026 Both teams earned their spot with impressive playoff wins, setting up a thrilling finale for the Julius Erving Trophy. — Juan Carlos Blanco, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 On a typical day, between 60 and 70 children participate in swim teams at Milander Aquatic Center and Babcock Park Pool, while more than 10 seniors use the pools in the mornings. — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026 Which is why there has been a new focus on ‘Legacy Numbers’, for both the men’s and women’s teams, to place every individual player in the long line of those who came before them. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026 The series moves to sea level in Cape Town next Saturday and New Zealand is the surprising front-runner in the first full series between the teams in 30 years. — ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026 Its foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari previously said Qatari rescue teams searched for their remains and spoke to Iran to coordinate the handover of one of their bodies. — Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026 The teams wasted little time finding the net as Bay FC jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the sixth minute when former Live Oak High and Cal star Karlie Lema’s pressure led to her fourth goal of the season. — Staff, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teams
  1. crews
  2. groups
  3. platoons
  4. clubs
  5. armies
  6. leagues
  7. squads
  8. allies
Noun
  • Hundreds of miles away, Ukrainian drone crews had barely paused after the night’s work before starting to prepare for another attack.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Utility crews are working to shore up main pipes that carry sewage 8-10 feet below the original creek bed.
    — John Tufts, IndyStar, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of crews
Verb
  • Because humans can readily resolve patterns in motion — when points move in the same direction, the brain groups them into a unified whole — the moving dots appear as faint letters.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of groups
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
Definition of platoons
Verb
  • That advantage was in large part offset by payments from UEFA’s ‘value pillar’, a mechanism which awards clubs money based upon their coefficient ranking (determined by past performance in European competition) and the size of their nation’s broadcast rights deal for the competition.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 30 May 2026
  • Their top-30 visits, where NFL clubs host prospects at their facilities to gather further intel, are often smokescreens.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of clubs
Noun
  • And because intelligence exists in isolated fragments across different systems, companies end up deploying armies of employees whose primary, manual job is just interpretation.
    — Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Both sides, weakened by adverse conditions, had armies of nearly equal strength.
    — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of armies
Verb
  • For those interested in learning or perfecting their game, Crossroads Golf KC will begin to offer lessons from instructors, and leagues every Monday and Tuesday starting in the fall.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026
  • This has led to a rising tide of fist-shaking among sports fans that leagues and teams are harder than ever to follow amid a checkerboard of free and subscription distribution deals.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 July 2026
Definition of leagues
Noun
  • 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
  • Another area power that could be in the mix is North Crowley — all three squads could head to the Class 6A Division II, depending on district finishes.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of squads
Verb
  • But the rub this time is the introduction of Varang (Oona Chaplin), an unhinged leader of a tribe who allies herself with human villains.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • The ash people’s perspective allies them with the group looking to strip-mine Pandora’s resources.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2025
Definition of allies

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“Teams.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teams. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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