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ground crew

NOUN
maintenance crew
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For all the contributors keeping warm up and down the Dodgers’ lineup, the members of the Rockies’ ground crew were the real heroes of Friday’s game.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2026

After one flight, he parked his aircraft so askew that ground crew had to reposition the jet.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 22, 2025

“I don’t want to say this on the frequency with the pilot monitoring, but it looks like the wheels are partially out,” another says, suggesting that the ground crew be alerted.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2024

PSE’s general goal after an outage is to have a ground crew out within 55 minutes, but Vargo acknowledged waits can be longer during events like winter storms when there are many outages at once.

From Seattle Times May 5, 2024

Lilya Litvyak got her ground crew to paint something even more personal on her Yak: a white lily, of course.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein



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