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as in team
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 clique
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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Recent Examples of gang
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 July 2026
Police officials and advocates for trafficking victims say the Hoovers gang, which formed in the 1970s, has long held a stranglehold along Figueroa.
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Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
Vedika Sud,
CNN,
19 Mar. 2020
Jang features in the names of many quintessential Korean ingredients, such as ganging (soy sauce), gochujang (chili paste) and doenjang (soybean paste).
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Katie Workman,
NBC News,
8 Mar. 2020
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Noun
No longer so scrappy, the gang of cinephiles that’s likely behind your latest fave is taking names and making deals.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 July 2026
Police officials and advocates for trafficking victims say the Hoovers gang, which formed in the 1970s, has long held a stranglehold along Figueroa.
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Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
Verb
For Nirbhaya's mother, justice is death for the men who gang raped her daughter.
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Vedika Sud,
CNN,
19 Mar. 2020
Jang features in the names of many quintessential Korean ingredients, such as ganging (soy sauce), gochujang (chili paste) and doenjang (soybean paste).
—
Katie Workman,
NBC News,
8 Mar. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gang
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The Mets, being one of the worst offensive teams in baseball, don’t often come back from large deficits.
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Among their polyglot ranks are search-and-rescue specialists, doctors, canine teams and structural engineers.
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Since its inception, social media has been a proving ground for tween fashion and identity, offering under-16s a digital canvas to experiment with their style and form online cliques around niche interests.
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Shen wondered whether there was a random model that could produce clique-free colorings more efficiently than Erdős’ approach.
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The series follows the Black Mafia Family in Detroit and is based on a true story.
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On the surface, the crime drama follows the rise and fall of the Black Mafia Family — one of the most influential crime families in the country.
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The game’s objective is to group sixteen words or objects into four groups of four based on commonalities within each group as quickly as possible.
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It often gets grouped with convertible clothing, which covers pieces that change in other ways, like zip-off legs or adjustable lengths.
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Students in the program completed hands-on training and academic coursework while serving the remainder of their sentences as a hand crew member at a conservation camp.
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Maybe that explains her chaotic behavior when the crew goes out later that night.
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The plebeians have plenty to be furious about, but their representatives, skilled at turning a crowd into a mob, seem hellbent on shoring up their own influence.
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Large-scale events involve tabletop exercises with law enforcement, fire departments, emergency managers and venue officials running through countless scenarios — evacuations, suspicious packages, drones and crowd surges.
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Lucky Number Slevin, a movie about mistaken identity, rival crime syndicates, and assassins, was, for some reason (Josh Hartnett), one of the comfort movies of my childhood.
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The following day, the syndicate said its Alexandria branch was closely monitoring developments surrounding the allegations at al-Shatabi Hospital.
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Teoscar Hernandez clubbed the next pitch from Morejon, a slider down but out over the plate, 419 feet to center field for a grand slam and a 4-3 lead.
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In the seventh inning Friday at American Family Field, the Milwaukee Brewers catcher clubbed a 1-2 pitch from Chicago Cubs reliever Jayden Murray that sailed 449 feet to left-center field.
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“Gang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gang. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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