as in crews
a group of people working together on a task
asked the Boy Scouts to split into teams and begin pitching their tents
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Recent Examples of teams
Mike Kaye
september 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
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
But California’s three NHL teams have helped grow the game tremendously in recent years, and Wolf’s development experience with the Los Angeles Jr.
—Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
All of the jawing between the two teams resulted in Jimmy and Jey challenging Reed and Breakker to a tag team match for Wrestlepalooza.
—Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
The six new teams rounding out the collection are Indiana, Arizona State, Kansas, Miami, Mississippi State, North Carolina State and Washington.
—Dylan Reffe, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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
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
But California’s three NHL teams have helped grow the game tremendously in recent years, and Wolf’s development experience with the Los Angeles Jr.
—Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
All of the jawing between the two teams resulted in Jimmy and Jey challenging Reed and Breakker to a tag team match for Wrestlepalooza.
—Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
The six new teams rounding out the collection are Indiana, Arizona State, Kansas, Miami, Mississippi State, North Carolina State and Washington.
—Dylan Reffe, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teams
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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Trump’s grandiose displays of brute force—the massing of weapons of war and platoons of masked, unidentified combat fighters targeting the very civilian populations they are commissioned to protect—does not bring reassurance.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
25 Aug. 2025
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Russian assault platoons are rushing behind ukrainian lines.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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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The game was the District 3-5A Division II openers for both squads and the Cougars are 3-0 overall and 1-0 in district play for the second year in a row.—
Cody Thorn,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Sep. 2025
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Both teams expect to be playing deep into January (and maybe into February if things go right), so this prime-time showdown will be a good litmus test for both squads.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Which leagues’ windows will still be open after today?—
Leon Imber,
New York Times,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And just like historical colonialism, this influence flows primarily in one direction – from powerful tech companies to the rest of us.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Florida Republican also called for social media companies to take down the videos capturing the moments he was shot.—
Amy DeLaura,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The overwhelming pattern is that what China showcases at Tiananmen becomes reality in squadrons, brigades, and fleets.—
Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Still, these cracks in the coalition have not caused a shift in the brigades’ determination to fight.—
Leila Seurat,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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That would imply three missile-firing battalions and six to nine nuclear-capable ICBMs, such as the Hwasong-15 or Hwasong-18.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
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While the arc of Agu’s transformation is tragic and the story of the civil war and its battalions of child soldiers is wide in scope, the power of the novel lies in its immersion.—
Katie Kitamura
August 21,
Literary Hub,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Teams.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teams. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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