Example Sentences

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It can come across as scolding, and it can sometimes seem like the person being fact-checked—no matter how deserving the fact checks—is being ganged up on by the moderators.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2024

Because one person could feel ganged up on.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

But whereas male chimpanzees frequently ganged up to or defeat rivals or bully females, bonobo males mainly participated in one-on-one fights and rarely attacked members of the opposite sex.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 12, 2024

“Politicians, pundits and academics all ganged up on me basically to deliberately and willfully distort what I said.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2020

As if we wouldn’t, thrown in under the very feet of all these hulking humans, ganged together with them within these metal walls.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck