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as in coalition
an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection
the bloc that the United States and most of western Europe formed during the Cold War
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Recent Examples of bloc
Four decades later, the Soviet bloc collapsed, and Russian soldiers retreated.
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Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
British citizens lost the right to move and work freely in the EU when the country left the bloc in 2020.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Already, some argue, the world's most powerful military bloc appears to be scrambling to adapt to the new reality of an emerging form of modern warfare in which Moscow has heavily invested.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
On the other hand, an otherwise strong voting bloc can be marginalized by splintering its voters among several districts, thereby diluting its impact.
—Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
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Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
British citizens lost the right to move and work freely in the EU when the country left the bloc in 2020.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Already, some argue, the world's most powerful military bloc appears to be scrambling to adapt to the new reality of an emerging form of modern warfare in which Moscow has heavily invested.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
On the other hand, an otherwise strong voting bloc can be marginalized by splintering its voters among several districts, thereby diluting its impact.
—Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloc
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The story is about a technologically superior faction obsessed with developing a single, revolutionary new weapon, a complex space-time bender.—
Marco Argenti,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Breakker and Reed are members of the Raw faction known as The Vision, led by Seth Rollins.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Netanyahu, meanwhile, stands accused of having repeatedly turned down earlier deals with Hamas to appease extreme elements within his fragile coalition government.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement While trying to bridge internal party rifts, Takaichi will need to build a majority coalition and convince voters that changing leaders really matters.—
Jeff Kingston,
Time,
4 Oct. 2025
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Despite the risks, Democratic strategists like James Carville believe the party is better positioned politically, noting that Republicans control both the House and the Senate, as well as the White House.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Public opinion has historically played a decisive role in shutdown fights, with voters often blaming the party seen as most intransigent.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Specifically, their alliance begins after a prominent lawyer is brutally killed, shortly after agreeing to reveal secrets from his criminal past in a tell-all book that Falch was going to write.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
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Under an imperial decree, her captors become unlikely allies, guiding Jewish refugees through ambushes, shifting alliances and treacherous waters, while Sara confronts leadership, loyalty and love at a high cost.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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New York — The National Transportation Safety Board is now investigating after two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided on the taxiway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Wednesday night, with the wing of one aircraft slamming into the cockpit windows of the other.—
Aaron Cooper,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Spurs wing just watched his teammates take turns trying to score on their star center, then going back down the other end of the floor to try to do it again.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 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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The program is open to eligible participants from counties in the eastern Upper Peninsula and the west side of the state to parts of metro Detroit, and has garnered tens of millions in public and private dollars as well as bipartisan interest from lawmakers.—
Nushrat Rahman,
Freep.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Head coach Robin van Persie’s pressing scheme was to show Villa’s defenders down the line, with Feyenoord’s closest central midfielder pressing the ball-side No 10.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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For the first half of her tenure, Engelbert seemed to enjoy a positive relationship with the players, securing major corporate partners, working with the union on a collective-bargaining agreement that looked historic at the time, keeping the league afloat during the COVID pandemic.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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While most people in established unions may grow closer, like moving in, making long-term promises, getting engaged or married or even in a business sense, like signing a contract, others that are not in alignment may go their separate ways.—
Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Bloc.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloc. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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