gaggles

noun

plural of gaggle
as in swarms

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  1. swarms
  2. schools
  3. pods
  4. colonies
Noun
  • My interview with Altman had been arranged weeks earlier, just as the first revelations emerged about swarms of rogue AI agents conspiring to hack websites.
    — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Drone swarms were used to provide targeting information to ground units, while tactical UAVs, armed helicopters and unmanned ground vehicles coordinated attacks against simulated targets.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of swarms
Noun
  • In Texas, parents have demanded that school districts ban all energy drinks in the public schools.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • This all comes at a time when ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of schools
Noun
  • The highly specialized crush pods are designed to absorb the touchdown impact.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Keurig’s new single-serve coffee machine delivers the same convenience that helped popularize its appliances but without the use of recyclable pods made from plastic and aluminum.
    — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of pods
Noun
  • As the colonies grow, more layers of sediment are trapped and solidified beneath them by biofilms that the organisms produce, causing the whole colony to build upward in layers, like the pages in this book.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Cooling to below 50° C (122° F) took up to 5 million years, still enough heat for colonies of microbes to thrive.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of colonies
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“Gaggles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaggles. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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