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as in alliance
an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection
preservationists formed a coalition with the theater owners to preserve these historic structures
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Recent Examples of coalition
New Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition this year pushed plans through parliament to enable higher defense spending by loosening strict rules on incurring debt.
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2025
The coalition supporting the bid now includes more than 300 organizations and businesses including local restaurants, hotels, residents, unions and Broadway stakeholders who the developers say stand to benefit from the project.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
The partial approach enabled Netanyahu to promise his coalition partners that Israel will resume the war eventually.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
Israeli leaders have resisted such terms since abandoning a similar agreement earlier this year under pressure from Netanyahu's far-right coalition allies.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2025
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2025
The coalition supporting the bid now includes more than 300 organizations and businesses including local restaurants, hotels, residents, unions and Broadway stakeholders who the developers say stand to benefit from the project.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
The partial approach enabled Netanyahu to promise his coalition partners that Israel will resume the war eventually.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
Israeli leaders have resisted such terms since abandoning a similar agreement earlier this year under pressure from Netanyahu's far-right coalition allies.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coalition
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Zeta Tijuana, an investigative magazine, reported in 2023 that Huerta’s Arellano Félix cell had colluded with corrupt Tijuana police officers to steal a massive drug shipment from a rival Sinaloa faction — an episode that prompted cartel hitmen to hunt down and kill the dirty cops.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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Two factions — Membership First and Unite for Strength — vied for power for two decades.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
13 Aug. 2025
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Concerns about Russian aggression had contributed to decisions by European governments and the NATO military alliance to drastically hike their defense budgets, benefiting security companies operating in the region .—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
14 Aug. 2025
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The alliance works with several organizations, including Save the Elephants, The Nature Conservancy, Northern Rangelands Trust, Kenya Wildlife Service and Reteti Elephant Sanctuary.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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Getty Images The ongoing battle between Rayo Vallecano president Raúl Martín Presa and the club’s supporters has taken another ugly turn as the two parties hit out at each other on Sunday ahead of the team’s first home league fixture of the 2025/26 campaign against reigning champions FC Barcelona.—
Sam Leveridge,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Ksenia, whom Baranov meets at a hedonistic party in the early 1990s as counterculturals rage amid the dawn of a new, post-USSR Russian era, is indicated as a grifting wild thing, the type who always has a mysterious male benefactor to keep her in minks.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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In the sixteenth century, the nomadic, reindeer-herding Sámi people of what’s now northern Sweden and Finland and the Shawnee of the Ohio Valley in North America, who lived in farming villages organized as a confederacy, didn’t necessarily have much in common.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Aug. 2025
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Americans are divided on that topic, with 55% saying historical figures that supported the confederacy and racial segregation should not be memorialized in a June 2024 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Rub classic wings, Mango Habanero boneless wings, and Hickory Smoked BBQ boneless wings.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
31 Aug. 2025
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Think of it as an air wing on the back of a car, but going the opposite direction and into the water behind the boat.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Aug. 2025
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That law is among several concerns about school curriculum across the state, according to a prominent union, the Texas American Federation of Teachers.—
Zulekha Nathoo,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
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Blue collar work offers something corporate America no longer guarantees - stability (to some extent), tangible skills, and often union protections.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
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One side of the restaurant will also offer traditional, sit-down dining service.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Threat Detection Needs Trustworthy Data On the threat detection side, AI is already proving its worth by filtering noise, detecting anomalies and identifying malicious behavior that traditional tools might miss.—
Craig Davies,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Those rights were separately negotiated with the German football federation (DFB).—
Manuel Veth,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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After weeks of mounting pressure on Israel to address reports of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with longtime allies lining up to condemn the government or recognize a Palestinian state, the largest Jewish federation in the United States took a news making step.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Coalition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coalition. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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