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
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.
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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
Vogt is all but certain to win again, despite Hinch’s deft handling of the Tigers’ tricky platoons across the board.
—Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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
Russian assault platoons are rushing behind ukrainian lines.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for platoons
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As of January 7, seven teams are looking for a new coach, including the Cleveland Browns, New York Giants, Las Vegas Raiders, Tennessee Titans, Atlanta Falcons, and Arizona Cardinals.—
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That's not to mention the lower ranks where teams like James Madison or Tulane might find their way into the 12-team field, only to get obliterated in the playoff and lose their coaches and half their players to Power Five schools along the way.—
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In other words, just as warfare and armed conflict have evolved away from armies lined up across national borders, the right to self-defense has to be read as being capacious enough to accommodate a military response to threats such as narco-terrorism.—
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Allied armies had broken out of Normandy, liberated Paris, and pushed toward Germany.—
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Moments after talking to the alderwoman, Chicago Streets and Sanitation crews were out at night clearing trash, not tents.—
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Officials also touted their success in securing gap financing for Rose Creek Village, a complex of 59 studio apartments in Pacific Beach where crews broke ground in September.—
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But Izzy Johnston is plotting a way for her Warriors to rise above all those squads.—
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The extra point the Sharks collected separated them from the Kings in the standings, with both squads in a wild-card spot.—
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Top-tier television used to entice movie stars with the promise of meaty roles and superlative writing; 2025 television enlists battalions of Oscar winners by waving around a script based on a mid-tier best seller and the prospect of a couple of months on location in Nantucket.—
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Firefighters quickly called more engines and battalions as the blaze grew.—
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Every January, companies from around the world gather to flaunt new technologies, products and services.—
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Thinking globally and acting locally means electing people of vision, not people who couldn't find their way out of a paper bag without a lobbyist lighting their way under the table, or down the wrong path where for-profit companies rule and teachers are scapegoated for society's failures.—
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According to sources, confronting the unit directly would require the simultaneous deployment of at least four army brigades.—
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The army has purchased 92 T-72B1 tanks and 123 BMP-3 armored personnel carriers from Russia, which equip the armored brigades alongside 81 AMX-30 tanks previously acquired from France.—
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“Platoons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platoons. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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