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 welcome ceremony also included a flyover by two B-1 bombers, platoons from each military service, and a presentation of the flags and anthems of both countries. — Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026 The welcome ceremony was also set to include a flyover by two B-1 bombers, flower presenters, platoons from each military service, and a presentation of the flags and anthems of both countries. — Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 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 In the coming years, as Erik Neander took over the baseball operations department, the Rays were at the forefront of analytics with defensive shifts, aggressive platoons, utilizing openers, creating a menagerie of arm slots in the bullpen and, yes, prioritizing exit velocity. — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 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

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While no postponements or cancellations have been announced, security teams are undoubtedly assessing what level of risk is tolerable for the titans of the global economy.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
The mediator does an intense workout taking the offers and counteroffers between the parties, up and down an elegant staircase that separates the teams.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

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Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a long-range aerial war as their armies remain largely deadlocked on the battlefield, more than 4½ years after Moscow's all-out invasion of its neighbor.

— SAMYA KULLAB, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a long-range aerial war as their armies remain largely deadlocked on the battlefield, more than 4½ years after Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor.

— Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

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High costs But shippers are ferrying crude through Hormuz at high cost to the lives of their crews and in freight and insurance rates, Bockmann said.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
In Hideaway Hills, six years after emergency crews knocked on doors and ordered families to pack up and leave, the original sinkhole remains unfilled.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of crews

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The only bad thing about tonight's game is that the Brewers are up 2-0, and this could be the last game between the two squads.

— David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
One of those squads is Fort Worth Paschal — the Panthers have struggled in district play but have given Wyatt and Heights tough games.

— Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of squads

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Nor could Grossman write about collaborators or the punishment battalions composed of convicts that were used as cannon fodder (one of many parallels between the conduct of the Soviet army and the present-day Russian military in Ukraine).

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
In northern Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts, Russian forces are reportedly disbanding some tank battalions and reallocating younger servicemembers to drone units, while assigning other personnel to assault units.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of battalions

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The companies say a flood of lawsuits in state courts is not the way to deal with the global issue.

— LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
Wildfires California created first-in-the-nation standards to test and remediate homes damaged by wildfire smoke and to require insurance companies to pay for associated costs.

— Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of companies

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Numan said Iraq had established two joint Iraqi-Kurdish brigades focusing on counter-ISIS operations.

— Jane Arraf, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026
So far, no mainstream Democratic politician has seemed willing to stir up the hornet’s nest by taking on the progressive brigades.

— David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

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