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as in teams
a group of people working together on a task
a gang of neighborhood residents spent the weekend cleaning up the park
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as in communities
a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially
the whole gang went out for pizza the school's computer hackers had their own little gang
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as in Mafias
a group involved in secret or criminal activities
politicians promising to stop the growth of inner-city gangs
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Recent Examples of gangs
Johnny Fils-Aimé, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Last November, gangs opened fire on a Spirit Airlines flight landing in Port-au-Prince, striking a flight attendant who received minor injuries.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
As members of two California gangs poured out of a Las Vegas boxing match in September 1996, Tupac Shakur, the most famous rapper in the country at the time, sucker punched a rival.
—Gina Barton, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
The city has been taken over by a bunch of evil gangs and so the nerdy Scott Pilgrim and his pals, including Ramona Flowers and Lucas Lee come to the rescue.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Right now, under the current leadership in our city, gangs still control our streets, human trafficking goes unchecked and drugs flow through here like the Mississippi River.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
On Thursday, during a visit to Ecuador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that two gangs were being reclassified as foreign terrorist organizations.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
Gerson believes the gangs have retreated.
—Johnny Fils-Aimé, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Last November, gangs opened fire on a Spirit Airlines flight landing in Port-au-Prince, striking a flight attendant who received minor injuries.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
As members of two California gangs poured out of a Las Vegas boxing match in September 1996, Tupac Shakur, the most famous rapper in the country at the time, sucker punched a rival.
—Gina Barton, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
The city has been taken over by a bunch of evil gangs and so the nerdy Scott Pilgrim and his pals, including Ramona Flowers and Lucas Lee come to the rescue.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Right now, under the current leadership in our city, gangs still control our streets, human trafficking goes unchecked and drugs flow through here like the Mississippi River.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
On Thursday, during a visit to Ecuador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that two gangs were being reclassified as foreign terrorist organizations.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gangs
Noun
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Fourth-and-8 isn’t really a great spot to risk a turnover on downs, but with kickoff touchbacks placing teams at the 35-yard line, a turnover at the 39-yard line isn’t particularly damning by comparison.—
Mike Kaye
September 10,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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TeamSmile is a nonprofit organization that brings oral health professionals together with professional sports teams to help deliver oral health procedures to underserved children.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Specifically, Shellenberger testified that sources had informed him that intelligence communities are in possession of numerous high-resolution photos and videos of the craft unlike any of the grainy imagery that has so far been declassified.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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The series builds on The Star's efforts to improve coverage of local communities.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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In desperate need of shelf-stable foods to feed his armies, Napoléon Bonaparte offered a reward of 12,000 francs to anyone who could invent a new method of food preservation.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
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Bluesky, part of the decentralized internet, is slower paced and caters to niche interests, rewarding internecine fights over minutiae, whereas X is deliberately chaotic, encouraging the gathering of follower-armies and ideological insult-comedy for an audience that may be largely made up of bots.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points.—
Beth Bailey,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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In the Lower West Side of Chicago, music blared and green, white and red flags fluttered down the streets of the predominantly Latino Pilsen neighborhood on Saturday as crowds gathered for the start of Mexican Independence Day celebrations.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2025
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Behind these scams, according to the Commission's findings, Chinese crime syndicates have aligned themselves with Beijing's geopolitical agenda.—
Mike Kuiken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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These scam centers mushroomed especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, when Chinese criminal syndicates found a new use for empty casinos and hotels.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To counter the explosive projectiles, Russian tank crews began mounting homemade cages above their turrets to cushion the tanks from blasts.—
Marco Hernandez,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The fire suppression efforts involve 20 engines, two water tenders and eight hand crews.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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At the Dallas Street property, small cliques of armed men, mostly Venezuelans and Mexicans, fought an ongoing turf war.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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And there's hierarchy and cliques and clubs and all these different things.—
H. Alan Scott
Jennifer Cunningham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Ellen and Brian may have just declared their love and commitment to each other in a handfast ceremony, but their burgeoning relationship is about to upend both of their clans’ lives.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Aug. 2025
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Colum calmly declares that the union will mend the damage between the clans.—
Lincee Ray Published,
EW.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Gangs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gangs. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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