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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 squads Missy Bo Kearns Made her debut as a substitute away at Spain last year — a baptism of fire — and was in consecutive England squads after Euro 2025, starting against Ghana in December. —
Megan Feringa, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026 Their six-game runway into the postseason included wins over short-handed squads and the tanking Utah Jazz, hardly results to write home about with playoff basketball looming. —Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026 Each team is playing their first few games together since the World Cup ended in late September, with lots of new players and some players away from the team with the nation’s 7s squads, concurrently competing in Hong Kong. —Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2026 Philadelphia is 2-14 in its last 16 games against top-six teams from either conference, with nearly all of its wins since January coming against lottery or play-in squads. —Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026 The squads have scrimmaged each other a bunch — and even have some connective tissue in Brandt Bronico, who is now with CLTFC but played for the Independence for a time — but never in a real setting like this one. —Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2026 The district is strong, and all three squads will be tough postseason challenges. —Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026 For three-time champion Miami, Tuesday was the latest disappointment, a fourth straight season relegated to the play-in tournament where the mediocre teams are like JV squads playing to make the varsity. —Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026 The Kings are also doing a mini-Nuggets, riding a four-game win streak — the longest active streak among West squads — into Monday’s action. —Troy Renck, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
Megan Feringa, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026 Their six-game runway into the postseason included wins over short-handed squads and the tanking Utah Jazz, hardly results to write home about with playoff basketball looming. —Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026 Each team is playing their first few games together since the World Cup ended in late September, with lots of new players and some players away from the team with the nation’s 7s squads, concurrently competing in Hong Kong. —Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2026 Philadelphia is 2-14 in its last 16 games against top-six teams from either conference, with nearly all of its wins since January coming against lottery or play-in squads. —Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026 The squads have scrimmaged each other a bunch — and even have some connective tissue in Brandt Bronico, who is now with CLTFC but played for the Independence for a time — but never in a real setting like this one. —Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2026 The district is strong, and all three squads will be tough postseason challenges. —Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026 For three-time champion Miami, Tuesday was the latest disappointment, a fourth straight season relegated to the play-in tournament where the mediocre teams are like JV squads playing to make the varsity. —Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026 The Kings are also doing a mini-Nuggets, riding a four-game win streak — the longest active streak among West squads — into Monday’s action. —Troy Renck, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squads
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The teams square off Monday for the fourth time this season.— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
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For many years, the top pick was determined by a coin flip between the worst teams in the Western and Eastern Conferences.— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
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The Rays were also at the forefront of other innovations and/or adjustments, such as defensive shifts, lineup platoons, matchup bullpens, star-quality super-utility players and putting a numbers nerd (technically a process and analytics coach) in the dugout.— Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
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Outfield requires far more starting spots, and most of those available later in drafts are locked in platoons.— Dalton Del Don, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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Only a professional military can repel one of the world’s most powerful armies.— Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
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The marks, which are sandwiched between towers once used to scout for armies and to allow archers and other artillery-throwers to fend off enemy incursions, are arrayed in a way that suggests they may have been left by a repeating dart-thrower called a polybolos.— Taylor Mitchell Brown, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2026
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Residents of the area helped victims before emergency crews arrived, according to the Times of India.— Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
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Both flight crews responded to onboard traffic alerts, the FAA said, helping the planes avoid a potential midair conflict.— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
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