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a group of people acting together within a larger group
several factions within the environmental movement have joined forces to save this wilderness area
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Recent Examples of faction
Yet support for other political factions, including the Palestine Liberation Organization, was even lower.
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Scott Atran, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2025
The potential for cuts could disrupt the Farm Bill negotiations and lead to political gridlock, with Republican and Democratic factions holding divergent views.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
The Syrian army is still being cobbled from various armed factions and is still a work in progress.
—Greg Myre, NPR, 12 Feb. 2025
Where Brits feel like suspicious maniacs—one of the most rewarding things about UK Traits is seeing relatively clever people so certain in their wrongness—Americans are lambs to the slaughter, bound up in factions blind to internal threats.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
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Scott Atran, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2025
The potential for cuts could disrupt the Farm Bill negotiations and lead to political gridlock, with Republican and Democratic factions holding divergent views.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
The Syrian army is still being cobbled from various armed factions and is still a work in progress.
—Greg Myre, NPR, 12 Feb. 2025
Where Brits feel like suspicious maniacs—one of the most rewarding things about UK Traits is seeing relatively clever people so certain in their wrongness—Americans are lambs to the slaughter, bound up in factions blind to internal threats.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faction
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McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who turned 83 on Thursday, is the longest-serving Senate party leader in history.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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Polls for the upcoming election on Sunday, and the AfD’s success in regional elections last year, show the party has transformed from regional to national force.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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There were multiple wounds on the right side of her body, along with protruding bones and bedsores.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Feb. 2025
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The Broncos have been on the wrong side of many final-minute road losses this season.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
23 Feb. 2025
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As the humanitarian crisis worsened, veterans of the antiwar wing of the American left kept mainly silent.—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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Spicy Wings + Moor's India Pale Ale -The citrus notes and sweet finish of our IPA balances the heat of spicy wings, while the crispy finish refreshes the palate.—
Noel Burgess,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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In addition to leading one of the most progressive, esoteric, and liberalized sects of Islam, the imam was an accomplished racehorse breeder and proponent of Islamic architecture.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
4 Feb. 2025
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After 2,000 years, his followers have split into thousands of sects, many of whom have shot and killed members of rival sects.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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His finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has promised to withdraw from the government coalition if Israel does not return to war in Gaza when the current ceasefire expires on March 1.—
Mick Krever,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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Meloni spearheads the nationalist Brothers of Italy party, as well as the hard-right coalition voted into power in 2022.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
18 Feb. 2025
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Things won't get any easier for Texas A&M on the road on Saturday night in front of what will be an excited crowd and against a very motivated Florida team.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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Look, this team has been notorious this season about falling to carry over first-half momentum.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Mar. 2025
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But the dangers that Haiti’s crises continue to pose loomed large last week as the 15-member Caribbean Community regional bloc known as CARICOM discussed the ongoing problems in Haiti, a member country.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2025
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Friedrich Merz, the leader of the conservative bloc that won this month's election, also hardened his position on immigration, tilting toward the AfD platform and stirring fear among Germany's left of a coming coalition between the far- and moderate-right.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA TODAY,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Faction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faction. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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