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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
Pheu Thai's crisis was triggered back in June by Anutin's withdrawal from its alliance, which left the coalition government clinging to power with a razor-thin majority amid protests and plummeting popularity.
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Panarat Thepgumpanat, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
The coalition said the arrests showed federal authorities had listened to their past appeals, but insisted only a broader crackdown under federal racketeering and trafficking laws can dismantle the entrenched networks.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
In addition to the CFL, the coalition includes the Illinois AFL-CIO, progressive activist organization Indivisible Chicago, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Personal PAC, Equality Illinois and Sierra Club Illinois.
—Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Charnvirakul, who will lead a minority coalition, has vowed new elections within four months of being sworn in.
—semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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Panarat Thepgumpanat, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
The coalition said the arrests showed federal authorities had listened to their past appeals, but insisted only a broader crackdown under federal racketeering and trafficking laws can dismantle the entrenched networks.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
In addition to the CFL, the coalition includes the Illinois AFL-CIO, progressive activist organization Indivisible Chicago, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Personal PAC, Equality Illinois and Sierra Club Illinois.
—Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Charnvirakul, who will lead a minority coalition, has vowed new elections within four months of being sworn in.
—semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coalition
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There is a young faction of the movement that wants to extricate US money and power from the rest of the world, Israel included.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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An escape plan is hatched, leading to a breaking of factions, betrayals, and a shocking confrontation.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Ellis highlighted the importance of having a film establish such a strong alliance between the North and Northeast of Brazil, especially considering the longstanding focus on the Southeast and cities like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
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Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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In July's upper-house election, opposition parties campaigning on consumption tax cuts made significant gains, weakening Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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Clooney’s intervention helped pave the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to become the Democratic front-runner, a shift that dramatically reshaped the party’s strategy just months before the Democratic National Convention.—
Heather Hunter,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Sep. 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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In another example, against Real Sociedad in the knockout phase of the same competition in March, Alejandro Garnacho and Diogo Dalot have swapped positions, with winger Garnacho in the right wing-back slot.—
Ahmed Walid,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Mamdani is still running on the most left-wing platform of any modern Democratic nominee for mayor of New York.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Spending money to protect Harris isn’t sitting well with some, including the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents rank-and-file LAPD officers.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Sep. 2025
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The union representing jail nurses and mental health clinicians has also raised concerns.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Sep. 2025
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One strong gust of wind can be enough to flip one of these trailers onto its side.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Even rarer these days is a repeater that does not show its gongs and hammers on the dial side.—
Carol Besler,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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What has the Spanish federation and Liga F said about it?—
Laia Cervelló Herrero,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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In 2010, while playing for Ajax in the Netherlands, Suarez bit the shoulder of Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal and was handed a seven-game ban by the Dutch football federation.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Coalition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coalition. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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