as in group
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a large collection of people, animals, or things often placed close together
A solid phalanx of armed guards stood in front of the castle. She had to go through a phalanx of television cameras.
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Recent Examples of phalanx
Coppola sets up a David versus Goliath scenario between Matt Damon’s green law-school grad and a phalanx of corporate lawyers (led by Jon Voight) that’s both hugely satisfying and a fair reflection of the uphill battle facing health-care reform in the country at that time.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
The men appeared in gray suits and blue ties while a phalanx of law enforcement officers from Alameda and other local jurisdictions sat nearby in the gallery.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
Adams typically enters his Tuesday briefings accompanied by triumphant walk-on music and a phalanx of deputies, including his chief legal counsel.
—Jake Offenhartz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2024
Tehran has cultivated a phalanx of religious allies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen—frontline forces arrayed against a nuclear-armed Israel and the Sunni governments in the region.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
The men appeared in gray suits and blue ties while a phalanx of law enforcement officers from Alameda and other local jurisdictions sat nearby in the gallery.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
Adams typically enters his Tuesday briefings accompanied by triumphant walk-on music and a phalanx of deputies, including his chief legal counsel.
—Jake Offenhartz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2024
Tehran has cultivated a phalanx of religious allies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen—frontline forces arrayed against a nuclear-armed Israel and the Sunni governments in the region.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for phalanx
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The character is one of the powerful Aes Sedai – a group of women with the ability to channel the One Power who are part of an elite sisterhood.Denise Petski, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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This group — especially Dansby Swanson, Nico Hoerner and Pete Crow-Armstrong — accumulates a lot of value primarily from their elite defense.Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 11 Dec. 2024
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There are elements of at least eight battalions and four brigades in the Dalnje salient: no more than 10,000 Ukrainian troops, assuming all the units are at full strength.David Axe, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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What exactly is the establishment worried that Hegseth would ruin, besides maybe the morale of a few paperclip Purple Hearts in the bureaucratic brigade?Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 20 Nov. 2024
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Neutra -- originally from New York -- was serving as a tank platoon commander in the 77th Battalion of the 7th Brigade at the time of the Hamas attack.David Brennan, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2024
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Neutra, 21, served as a tank platoon commander in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the time of the attack, the IDF said, adding that Neutra’s body is still being held hostage in Gaza.Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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Or such groupings might incorporate a religious dimension.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Onomatopoeic groupings such as tseets, chirrups, rreeyoos, seeew-soooos, and dahs are also indeterminate: people transcribe the same sounds in different ways, and no bird version of the Académie Française exists to adjudicate.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Peppiatt identified a bit with DJ, the relatively straight school teacher who joins the band and picks up their nasty habits.Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024
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Season 1 introduced Amina (Anjana Vasan), a naive but musically gifted nerd who joins the band Lady Parts to get closer to one member’s hunky brother.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
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The Survivor producers always throw a bunch of twists out there.Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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Google has worked to bring as many features as possible into the model itself, rather than run a bunch of individual and siloed products, in order to be able to do more with Gemini in more places.David Pierce, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2024
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But the company expects to be rapidly increasing its EV supply and offerings, with a new battery plant that opened last year, two more under construction and a fourth planned soon.Chris Isidore, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
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One in 25 cars on the road are currently battery-powered, estimates Moto, rising to a third of all cars by 2030 and four in five by 2040.Carlton Reid, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
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The four of them remained sort of a posse of female senators who have supported one another.Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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That summer at a raucous meeting in the Park District headquarters, next to the AC Nielsen Tennis Center, a posse of infuriated dog-park users spoke out.Ben Ryder Howe, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Phalanx.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phalanx. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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