COTERIE Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

coterie

noun

ˈkō-tə-(ˌ)rē

Definition of coterie

as in clique

a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially a coterie of old friends who attend all of the home games of the high school basketball team

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Recent Examples of coterie And just like that, here comes another coterie of young people to make some of us feel old and some of us feel seen. — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026 According to Alessandro Usielli, head of Ford global brand entertainment, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Ford have all worked with the Bond franchise to introduce new models by providing cars for the superspy, his coterie of comely conquests and his villainous adversaries. — Brett Berk, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026 As an ambassador not just for France but for a coterie of brands that have inked lucrative deals with the young star, Mbappé is practiced. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026 Trump, who is traveling to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday and Friday, plans to bring along a coterie of prominent business and technology executives. — Julia Shapero, The Hill, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for coterie

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Noun

Cohen honed her act at the forefront of a clique of comedians who performed cabaret comedy, often at Club Cumming, in the late 2010s.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 28 July 2026
That era involved small cliques of devs talking a big game about decentralization (which often provided a pretext for no accountability) while shilling tokens at all turns.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026

Definition of clique

Noun

And the jeers that White received from the home crowd at the end of pregame introductions might have spurred energy from the Fever players before and after the tilt.

— Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
The second attempt in March 2021 succeeded, with images showing crowds that had gathered to witness the launch.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of crowd

Noun

At Bolsa Chica State Beach, swimmers suffering stings to the sides of their feet and toes sat in a circle refilling their pails with hot water from a hose.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
After Nihiwatu’s launch in 2001, stays at this low-key beach retreat became a rite of passage in surfer circles.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of circle

Noun

There is a decent chance the New York Mets’ group of position players next season looks similar to this year’s bunch with some tweaks.

— Will Sammon, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
The Rams use three tight ends and there’s a bunch of big personnel types all over the league.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of bunch

Noun

Heavy deposits could collapse roofs, contaminate water, damage machinery, bury crops, disrupt power networks, and make roads difficult to use.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
During a 2024 ground-breaking ceremony for the bridge, city and state leaders called it a key link connecting JOST trails with the coastal trail network, the Santa Ana Mountains, and the Cleveland National Forest.

— Julie Sharp, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of network

Noun

Every day, community health worker Gédéon Banga Ngbape and his team fan out across communities in eastern Congo looking for people who may have crossed paths with the country’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Jacobita Cortes, a United Methodist pastor in Chicago, said that fear has changed the rhythms of her community.

— Maria Santana, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of community

Noun

Davis was charged with murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang.

— Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Although gang ties to Tupac’s killing had been suspected from the beginning, the search for the killer was long hampered by the refusal of potential eyewitnesses to testify.

— Andy Rose, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

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