as in team
a group of people working together on a task
the cleaning squad usually arrives after regular business hours
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Recent Examples of squad
The undrafted second-year pro was just getting his opportunity to shine as the No. 1 running back after hanging on to the fringe of the franchise for three seasons on the practice squad.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Bill Belichick has wasted no time gathering new players for his UNC Tar Heels squad ahead of his inaugural season.
—Scott Thompson, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
The bloody, immersive retelling of the 2006 Iraq war sucks viewers into the horrors of military combat by depicting a squad of American soldiers inside the home of an Iraqi family and coming under heavy bombardment and attack.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2024
Gruden won a Super Bowl against his former Raiders squad in his first year in Tampa, but the rest of his tenure was wildly inconsistent.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Bill Belichick has wasted no time gathering new players for his UNC Tar Heels squad ahead of his inaugural season.
—Scott Thompson, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
The bloody, immersive retelling of the 2006 Iraq war sucks viewers into the horrors of military combat by depicting a squad of American soldiers inside the home of an Iraqi family and coming under heavy bombardment and attack.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2024
Gruden won a Super Bowl against his former Raiders squad in his first year in Tampa, but the rest of his tenure was wildly inconsistent.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Starting in a modest 10x10 room in Culver City, Valdez and his team turned a bold idea into a tangible reality.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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Midshipmen and cadets will compete in four different competitions and the team that wins the most points will be honored at halftime of the football game on Saturday.Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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The army has stepped up airstrikes in the half of the country that the RSF controls, while the RSF has staged raids on villages and intense artillery strikes.Reuters, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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The relationship went both ways, with Hezbollah fighters serving as shock troops that bolstered Assad’s flagging army — an intervention the group justified as protecting Shiite minorities and shrines in Syria from Islamist and jihadi factions in the opposition.Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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Sunday's mournful cowboy funeral is attended only by his family, the bunkhouse crew, and three close friends.Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 16 Dec. 2024
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By focusing on the television crew reacting to the horror and making on-the-spot decisions about how to most ethically broadcast it, director Tim Fehlbaum creates a compelling film with an epic scope comprised almost entirely of cramped interiors filled with analog filmmaking equipment.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024
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Typically, compared to other pitches, sinkers have larger platoon splits.Will Sammon, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
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As a military police platoon leader and trainer for the Kuwait National Guard's counterterrorism unit, Gabbard achieved another milestone in 2009, becoming one of the first women to set foot in a Kuwaiti military facility and the first woman to be honored by the Kuwait National Guard.Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Squad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squad. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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