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 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 He and Pat were assigned to different platoons and rarely saw each other. — Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025 Avivi said that gathering information on Hamas terrorists and the organization’s structure has been an ongoing effort for years, including mapping platoons, companies, and battalions, as well as identifying commanders. — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025

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Noun

There remain a lot of games on that schedule against teams with far more talent.

— Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
The decision to leave off Camden Brown comes down to who can actually contribute on special teams.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of teams

Noun

Big Ridley commands armies of extras, builds enormous sets and deploys cutting-edge visual effects to create places that no longer exist — or never did.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
And because intelligence exists in isolated fragments across different systems, companies end up deploying armies of employees whose primary, manual job is just interpretation.

— Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of armies

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The Brazil international has been omitted from the squads for the Community Shield and the Coventry game on successive weekends, and looks likely to depart before next Tuesday’s deadline.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Butler had 12 tackles in 12 games last season, and Cooper, undrafted out of Houston in 2025, has been on the practice squads for Detroit and Cleveland but hasn’t yet appeared in a game.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of squads

Noun

Originally constructed in the 1860s to house two battalions of the British Army, Chelsea Barracks served as an important military base for more than 140 years before being decommissioned in 2008.

— Nick Scott, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026
The Israeli army built another five battalions of soldiers who were never engaged in service or finished their service and wish to return to duty.

— Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of battalions

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The role of companies Singapore’s new scheme shifts from merely encouraging births to focus on family well-being over the long term, which might help change how potential parents think about children.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
Persuading big American oil companies to return to the region could prove a challenge given the political uncertainty and damaged infrastructure.

— Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of companies

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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
In their Two Marines Substack newsletter, Lee and Putiata describe Drone Line, a concept that grouped Russian drone units by depth behind the front rather than attaching them to individual brigades.

— David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

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