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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
The Lettuce Workers Strike of 1930 Matthew Wills November 27, 2020
Uniting for better wages and working conditions, a remarkably diverse coalition of laborers faced off against agribusiness.
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Allison Miller, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
What To Know Thursday's ruling by Hollander was in response to a case brought against DOGE by a coalition of labor unions and retirees who argued giving the new body access to Social Security data breached privacy and was a security risk.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Now Knight oversees a team of 13 mostly remote workers from a small office on Orange Avenue, setting the priorities for the group confronting some of the state’s biggest challenges — and advocating for its findings alongside a coalition of organizations across the state.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2025
High-net-worth people or their investor coalitions can self-finance the deals at lower prices and also have more flexible holding periods that enable them to take more risks than institutional buyers, says Kyle Kovac, CBRE’s executive vice president of capital markets.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
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Allison Miller, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
What To Know Thursday's ruling by Hollander was in response to a case brought against DOGE by a coalition of labor unions and retirees who argued giving the new body access to Social Security data breached privacy and was a security risk.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Now Knight oversees a team of 13 mostly remote workers from a small office on Orange Avenue, setting the priorities for the group confronting some of the state’s biggest challenges — and advocating for its findings alongside a coalition of organizations across the state.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2025
High-net-worth people or their investor coalitions can self-finance the deals at lower prices and also have more flexible holding periods that enable them to take more risks than institutional buyers, says Kyle Kovac, CBRE’s executive vice president of capital markets.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coalition
Noun
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That being said, Mysterio’s Judgment Day faction is and has been on its last legs for a while now.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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Another faction within the Trump administration wants to slow China’s growth to maintain U.S. geopolitical supremacy.—
Ann Scott Tyson,
Christian Science Monitor,
9 May 2025
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For now, the alliance, which represents over 250 brands, retailers and distributors across North America, is working toward getting industry-friendly regulation at the state level.—
Danielle Wiener-Bronner,
CNN Money,
10 May 2025
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There was a lot of talk of alliances on this episode.—
Joey Nolfi Published,
EW.com,
10 May 2025
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Yet even as the party showcases a solidly deep bench of experience 2028 contenders, there is a nagging narrative, mostly in media circles, that Democrats should mimic the GOP by eloping with a non-traditional candidate with a massive entertainment or social media footprint.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
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Farage's party is targeting working-class voters who once backed Labour.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 May 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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Men were the representatives of their clans and nations in the Haudenosaunee council, which made decisions for the confederacy as a whole.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Nov. 2024
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Solomon’s impending return to Tottenham does open up a slot on the wings for Harrison, but has too much water passed under the bridge?—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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The Bruins have added four transfers in point guard Donovan Dent, wing Jamar Brown and centers Xavier Booker and Steven Jamerson II.—
Ben Bolch,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Last June saw two of Europe’s biggest players unions, the English PFA and its French counterparts, the Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels, join forces to launch a case against FIFA, arguing the rights of its members were being violated under European Union (EU) laws.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
8 May 2025
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ZeniMax’s worker union has been in contract negotiations for two years and authorized a strike earlier this month.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
8 May 2025
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That’s on the softer side for Marvel adventures, which regularly generate at least $100 million to start.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
4 May 2025
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Some collect bootleg recordings, rare mementos, or obscure B sides.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
3 May 2025
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The romantic story suggests Athletic started fielding only Basque players in 1911 after being stripped of that year’s Copa del Rey for using ineligible foreign players, thereby sticking two fingers up to their rivals (Athletic were later reinstated as champions by the Spanish football federation).—
Tomás Hill López-Menchero,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Ensure identity federation solutions (e.g., SAML, OpenID Connect) support hybrid cryptographic models without breaking authentication workflows.—
Dino DiMarino,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Coalition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coalition. Accessed 14 May. 2025.
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