splinter group

noun

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

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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

That killing was believed to have been carried out by members of a splinter group who had grown disillusioned with the leadership of Shabazz. —Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2024

In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the next billion-dollar drug. —Rob Copeland, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024

Those former members created their own splinter group to continue their polygamous relationships. —Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024

Members of the splinter group believe that Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who led the Chabad Lubavitch movement before his death at age 92 in 1994, is the Messiah, a claim that the mainstream Chabad movement rejects. —Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2024

The village was in the crosshairs of the Inquisition, seeking to crush a Gnostic splinter group known as the Cathars, whose beliefs were branded heretical by the Vatican. —Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023

Yet the shooting of the detective outside a youth sports center — for which another I.R.A. splinter group swiftly took responsibility — is a reminder that in this land of ready smiles and ancient hatreds, the past is not always easy to leave behind. —Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023