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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
And that coalition wants West Bank annexation.
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Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
An advocate for sustainability and gender equity, Pinault spearheaded the group’s environmental initiatives and launched the Fashion Pact, a global coalition for climate action.
—Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Business coalitions can join forces with university associations to challenge punitive overreach in court, while also investing directly in scholarships and workforce partnerships to safeguard the talent pipeline.
—Leadership Brainery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The primary proponent of this effort to redefine antisemitism in order to silence discussion of Palestine in schools is the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California (JPAC), a pro-Israel coalition of organizations who have worked to stifle criticism of Israel through policy.
—Mohamed Shehk, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
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Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
An advocate for sustainability and gender equity, Pinault spearheaded the group’s environmental initiatives and launched the Fashion Pact, a global coalition for climate action.
—Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Business coalitions can join forces with university associations to challenge punitive overreach in court, while also investing directly in scholarships and workforce partnerships to safeguard the talent pipeline.
—Leadership Brainery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The primary proponent of this effort to redefine antisemitism in order to silence discussion of Palestine in schools is the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California (JPAC), a pro-Israel coalition of organizations who have worked to stifle criticism of Israel through policy.
—Mohamed Shehk, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coalition
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Arafat led the Fatah movement and was the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a sometimes unwieldy umbrella group of various Palestinian factions, ranging from outright Marxist to avowedly Islamist and everything in between.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 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,
10 Sep. 2025
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Elsewhere along the alliance’s eastern edge, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania have all reported Russian drone incursions.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
15 Sep. 2025
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Poland’s foreign minister has suggested that NATO states should consider imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect the alliance’s territory and people from Russian drones.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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American Clean Power's Grumet said that energy policy has become a core aspect of each party's political base, leading each party to campaign and then govern based on energy ideology rather than pragmatism which, in turn, creates instability.—
Jeff Young,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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As a result, both parties will continue a power-sharing agreement that Hortman brokered after the 2024 elections in which Democrats lost their majority, the Associated Press reported.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
17 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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More interestingly, the staff begins to spread its wings when granted opportunities to report.—
Michael M. Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Since many of their resources are tied to backcourt players, the Kings are sorely lacking in athletic wings/forwards who can bolster their defense.—
Mat Issa,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The union said the goal of the flyering is to inform school families in Latino and Black neighborhoods of their legal rights as the city prepares for the possible deployment of National Guard troops and ICE agents.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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Unifor said on April 11 that GM informed the union that CAMI Assembly would initiate temporary layoffs starting April 14 with workers returning in May for limited production.—
Jackie Charniga,
Freep.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Leaders have since reached an agreement to de-escalate tensions, temporarily lowering the duties to 30% on the United States’ side and 10% on China’s part.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Other Side of the Contest Award shows focus on who wins, but every contest has another side.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The latest addition is England U19 forward Princess Ademiluyi, who joined on loan from the NWSL’s Gotham this week, pending league and federation approval.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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The federation did not respond to The Athletic’s requests for comment.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Coalition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coalition. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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