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Recent Examples of clannish In Afghanistan, legitimate authority has traditionally been highly localized, a product of consensus rather than brute force, and firmly anchored in tribal, clannish, and kinship structures. Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011 The most successful of those managers have carved out a niche catering to the valley’s famously clannish billionaire elites. James McClain, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023 There are a broad spectrum of other possible explanations for the disparate outcomes Boegeman cites, including religious differences, geographic differences, even — gasp — the clannish propensity of ethnic groups to band together and create — or retain — their unique cultural traditions. Star Tribune, 19 July 2021 The Trumps are nothing if not clannish. Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 2 July 2020 See All Example Sentences for clannish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clannish
Adjective
  • But if oil prices remain middling, even friendly policies might not compel companies to significantly ramp up drilling.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • Instead of an origin story, Peter is thrown into the stressful situation of navigating high school life, being a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man and crushing on the daughter of Michael Keaton's villainous Vulture.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • The larger and less close-knit the group, the less appealing this kind of design can be.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • Our family is pretty close-knit for birthdays and celebrations.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • The whole first half of the season saw Hamilton struggle to adapt to the Italian race car, and Silverstone was another chapter in a familiar story.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025
  • Managers saw themselves as solving the equivalent of familiar jigsaw puzzles.
    Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025

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“Clannish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clannish. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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