- plural of crony.
cronies
Example Sentences
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Currently residing in the Further, Elise explains that Cyrus and his cronies plan to unleash their evil in the land of the living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The world will be a better place when statesmen and their cronies routinely submit their strategic brainstorms to an LLM, free of wishful thinking or tunnel vision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Some of the factories were owned by Hasina's cronies, who have since fled.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
"Circle of cronies" sounds like the kind of language Washington used to describe Noriega's government in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
Below, his father and his cronies clambered over the wreck with the feral grace of tiger monkeys.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
