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An example use of squad in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… first to the entire squad then to one …”
A squad is a group of people who are working together.
the word squad occurs in english on average 25.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that squad can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;