as in to team (up)
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Recent Examples of gang up
If needed, multiple AI bots can work as a team to gang up on a person.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Putting Scooby-Doo and the gang up against real monsters creates some great storytelling opportunities.
—Robert Niles, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
But Georgi was more upset that his wife and sister continue to gang up on him.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Within a few moments, the teen wounded with his own knife reached out to friends to gang up on the person who stabbed him.
—Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Putting Scooby-Doo and the gang up against real monsters creates some great storytelling opportunities.
—Robert Niles, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
But Georgi was more upset that his wife and sister continue to gang up on him.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Within a few moments, the teen wounded with his own knife reached out to friends to gang up on the person who stabbed him.
—Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gang up
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But unlike in other disputes, the players did not hang together, expressing significant division with union leadership.—
Tracy Grant,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 May 2026
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But, for many, what is known for sure is dwarfed by what might possibly hang together.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2026
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Jurors deliberated for a week before voting to convict 48-year-old Francesca Lopez in the death of Felipe Lopez-Custodio, who was clubbed to death with a piece of scrap wood and strangled with a cord inside his apartment on Jacqueline Way in Concord.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
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Walk stole third and then trotted home when Camden Johnson clubbed his ninth home run of the season.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
7 June 2026
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The leagued released a scheduling matrix with KU playing 18 Big 12 games.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2026
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As with any reform, however, the devil is in the details, and some of those details still had fans and league insiders asking questions.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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Consumers are tired of garments that fall apart or fail to meet their expectations, and Artistic Milliners is collaborating to deliver quality in concert with quickness.—
SJ Studio,
Footwear News,
12 June 2026
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Biologists have observed that in times of crisis, species collaborate with one another to increase their chances of survival.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
12 June 2026
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“Gang up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gang%20up. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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