cliquishness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cliquishness
Noun
  • Community as Currency Given the limits of formal support, many DIY filmmakers are investing in something harder to quantify: mutuality.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 8 Aug. 2025
  • This sense of mutuality ties back into trust and attachment security — knowing that your partner is reliable, present and truly in it with you.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Also, the female-heavy production team added a keen sense of understanding of female friendships and family relationships, which brought truth to the outlandish premise.
    Katie Grant, Parents, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift both dated Jonas Brothers at the same time, but the real love story was the two women’s friendship that emerged from those romances.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But Trump is testing the limits of their cordiality.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
  • But while Trump and Putin speak of each other with cordiality, relations are testier between the two countries than the rhetoric would indicate.
    Astha Rajvanshi, NBC news, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Instead, Starr would be my roving ambassador of joy and amity in an America that felt starved of such things.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
  • As part of this distancing, Seoul promotes a narrative (as seen in its recent monuments and museums) that emphasizes Japan’s wartime violence and highlights Korean amity with China.
    Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2015
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“Cliquishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliquishness. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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