variants
or Druse
plural Druze or Druzes or Druse or Druses
often attributive
: a member of a religious sect originating among Muslims and centered in Lebanon and Syria
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Syria’s twenty-three million people include multiple Muslim sects, Christians, Druze, and Kurds.
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Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
That would be a humanitarian disaster for the region's Kurds and Druze, a likely strategic disaster for Israel and America's moderate Arab allies, and a more insidious disaster in its potential activation of jihadi sleeper cells throughout the West.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Minority groups, including Druze, Christians and Alawite populations, also composed a southern rebel alliance that helped defeat Assad, and a big question remains as to how the new opposition forces in power will treat the remnants of Assad’s Ba’ath party.
—Brad Dress, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
That leaves Syria’s minority groups like Alawites, Shia Muslims, Ismailis, Druze, Kurds and Christians in fear of being targeted.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
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Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
That would be a humanitarian disaster for the region's Kurds and Druze, a likely strategic disaster for Israel and America's moderate Arab allies, and a more insidious disaster in its potential activation of jihadi sleeper cells throughout the West.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Minority groups, including Druze, Christians and Alawite populations, also composed a southern rebel alliance that helped defeat Assad, and a big question remains as to how the new opposition forces in power will treat the remnants of Assad’s Ba’ath party.
—Brad Dress, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
That leaves Syria’s minority groups like Alawites, Shia Muslims, Ismailis, Druze, Kurds and Christians in fear of being targeted.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Druze.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Druze. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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