splinter group

noun

: a group of people that has separated from a larger group (such as a political party)

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In real life, Mathews, a Mormon survivalist, had formed the splinter group The Order after splitting with the neo-Nazi Aryan Nation, disappointed the latter group wasn’t advancing its agenda quickly enough. Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024 Aryan Nation founder Richard Butler (Victor Slezak) attempts, and fails, to defuse Bob Matthews (Nicholas Hoult), the charismatic young leader of an ultra-violent and extremely organized splinter group planning an armed white supremacist revolution. Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024 One afternoon shortly after the vote, members of the splinter group gathered outside of San Francisco, hiking through the chaparrals of the San Bruno hills, and plotted what to do next. Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024 Yet the next year Russell and Kendall formed a splinter group called Jack Russell’s Great White that began touring clubs around the country. Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024 The attacks happened less than three months after gunmen from an Islamic State splinter group stormed a Moscow concert hall, killing 145 people and injuring hundreds. Charles Maynes, NPR, 25 June 2024 The Woman Teacher Documents a Feminist Labor Union’s Victory The UK’s National Union of Women Teachers went from splinter group to union in its own right, winning on equal pay—as The Woman Teacher shows first-hand. JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024 After attempting to work within Catt’s National American Woman Suffrage Association, Paul soon forms a splinter group, with the more streamlined named National Woman’s Party, and sets out to organize a march in Washington in 1913 on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. Frank Rizzo, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024 There are at least two major Taliban factions, one loyal to Mullah Akhtar Mansour and a new splinter group that emerged earlier this month under Mullah Muhammad Rasoul. Robert D. Crews, Foreign Affairs, 26 Nov. 2015

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