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Noun
But former Homeland Security officials and experts said pronouncing cartels and immigrant gangs, such as the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan street gang, as terrorist enemies could allow immigration officials to target people from that country. Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025 The film starred Wesley Snipes and Ice-T as a gang leader and a hardened cop, dodging one another amid a crack epidemic in Harlem. Matt Minton, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
Above all, the event serves as a venue for face-to-face connections among collectors – a place to gang together for wrist shots – that will be extra intense this year due to pent up desire after missing a year because of Covid. Carol Besler, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021 For Nirbhaya's mother, justice is death for the men who gang raped her daughter. Vedika Sud, CNN, 19 Mar. 2020 See all Example Sentences for gang 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gang
Noun
  • Of the teams left in the running, the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, and Toronto Blue Jays stand out as the potential favorites to land the star slugger.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The Mavericks looked like one of the NBA’s elite teams before their best player getting hurt.
    Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Three people were injured after a car hit a crowd of people who were leaving the NFC playoff on Sunday night, police said.
    Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The celebrations went south when a car drove into a crowd of people and injured three pedestrians.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • California For Subscribers The Mexican Mafia Tapes: Secret recordings reveal greed, betrayal — and a deal with the feds Sept. 4, 2024 Stinson had already been serving a life sentence for murdering a drug dealer in 1979.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The Bills have won six straight AFC East titles, and nothing short of their first Super Bowl appearance since 1993 seems acceptable to their Mafia.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • While all of the development’s dwellings are single-family residences, they are grouped into pods of six, each sharing a courtyard and driveway.
    Caitlin Montoya, Charlotte Observer, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Carlson is sometimes grouped with artists affiliated with Indigenous Futurisms, a term the Anishinaabe scholar Grace Dillon coined in 2003 to denote artists whose work offers a Native perspective on the future.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One of Arn’s few friends and one of the other rare older men still working on logging crews is Billy (John Diehl), whose diminishing faculties are a signal to Robert to put down his saw for good.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In Moana 2, which hit theaters back in November, Moana and Maui are reunited three years after the original 2016 film for a new voyage alongside a crew of unlikely seafarers after receiving an important call from her wayfinding ancestors.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps the second-most notable duo of the bunch, albeit by a wide margin, will be on display this Sunday when the Chiefs host the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship Game.
    Kellis Robinett, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Despite a small amount of coconut sugar and stevia in the mix, this was the most bitter of the bunch.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • AngelList also offers syndicate and fund administration tools.
    Lucinda Shen, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the Justice Department said in a statement.
    Reuters, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The beauty of dance is that there are so many ways to approach it—dance classes, clubbing with friends, or even just grooving in your living room.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Higher revenues clubbed with margin expansion and fewer shares resulted in the company’s bottom line of $21.17 now, up 54% from $13.77 in 2021.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024

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“Gang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gang. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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