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as in faction
a group of people acting together within a larger group a whole bloc of students got together to complain

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Recent Examples of bloc The People’s Republic of China is at the same time building its own trading bloc. Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025 That was 12 points better than his 2020 performance against Joe Biden -- an improvement Republicans hope to lock in and establish as a new baseline with the influential and diverse voting bloc. Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2025 At a time when the bloc should be united, given a raft of external pressures, nations are preoccupied with domestic issues. Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025 The Kurds deserve credit as the bloc that first forced the conversation in Damascus toward decentralization and wider representation. Hassan Hassan, Time, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bloc
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Noun
  • The White House is still of the position that Hamas is participating in good faith despite reports of violence against rival factions taking place since the ceasefire was implemented.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Hamas is waging street battles with various Palestinian armed factions.
    NPR, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The protests, organized by a coalition of left-leaning groups, were scheduled amid a federal government shutdown.
    Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • More than 2,600 rallies are planned Saturday in cities large and small, organized by hundreds of coalition partners.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Young Republicans implicated in a scandal over racist, antisemitic and misogynistic comments in leaked chat messages reported by Politico face mounting calls to step down from their positions in party organizations.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the Democratic Party for the People (DPP), the fourth-largest party in the Lower House, ruled out forming a new coalition with the LDP.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But Paz’s party does not hold a majority in the country’s legislature, which will force him to forge alliances to govern effectively.
    Reuters 3 min ago, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
  • After Operation Shovel, the alliance between the Kinahans and the Hutches fractured.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, since the announcement, discourse around who should and shouldn’t be given wings exposed just how stuck in the past some viewers still are.
    Essence, Essence, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The Kings’ deal with Murray is a fair compromise between a new front office that didn’t draft Murray and a still-rising wing who just turned 25.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The clouds are as much a character in Murphy’s work as the cowboys, though the former are unchanged since the Oceti Sakowin first formed their confederacy.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Marines were firing artillery from the coast to inland impact zones on the other side of the freeway.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Gaza ceasefire broken by both sides Hamas fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli positions and Israel responded with air strikes.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The union is striking for higher wages and benefits and hiring more employees to fill staffing shortages.
    Pat Maio, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Trustee Demetrio Gonzalez Hoy, the lone vote against the measure, warned that tripling the daily substitute teacher rate could be seen as a union busting tactic that would also encourage staff to strike longer.
    Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Bloc.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloc. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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