as in crowd
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
But there’s a larger coterie of tech world Trump supporters who are now working with the incoming administration, with varying degrees of formality.
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2024
Silvers had founded The Review, in 1963, with a coterie of friends, including Lowell’s longtime wife, the redoubtable critic Elizabeth Hardwick.
—Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
With Gracie Abrams On Tour This fantastical film strings together Mother Goose’s coterie (Little Bo Peep; Mary, Quite Contrary; Tom, the Piper’s Son) in a theatrical musical based on Victor Herbert’s operetta of the same name.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2024
Elon Musk’s takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2024
Silvers had founded The Review, in 1963, with a coterie of friends, including Lowell’s longtime wife, the redoubtable critic Elizabeth Hardwick.
—Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
With Gracie Abrams On Tour This fantastical film strings together Mother Goose’s coterie (Little Bo Peep; Mary, Quite Contrary; Tom, the Piper’s Son) in a theatrical musical based on Victor Herbert’s operetta of the same name.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2024
Elon Musk’s takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coterie
Noun
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Maybe the Birmingham crowd was just really living in the moment, because there aren’t too many videos of the screen during this stop’s Apple dance.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
3 May 2025
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Image Another photo that appeared inside depicted a large crowd gathered around the smoldering debris.—
John Otis,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Brad Pitt is zooming around in a race car, a new karate kid makes his debut (with help from the old one), a bunch of rampaging dinosaurs return, and Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are acting freaky once more.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Williams, who owned a 2.12 ERA in four career starts against the Twins, struggled to throw strikes against a patient Twins bunch.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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There were no small dinners for the team’s different cliques, only large team dinners every night.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Gossip that singles out specific employees or fosters cliques can undermine psychological safety and erode team cohesion.—
Toyna Chin,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Its network of electric vehicle chargers benefits thousands of drivers daily, especially since they can be used to charge non-Tesla EVs.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Scientists in the San Francisco lab had been the only ones able to test for bird flu contamination in pet food in the agency's network, multiple FDA officials said.—
Faris Tanyos,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2025
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Listen to this article When former NFL player Walter Mendenhall founded the social enterprise Male Mogul Initiative in 2017, his goal was to positively transform the way young men live and lead in their communities and hopefully alter the trajectory of those from disadvantaged backgrounds.—
Shanzeh Ahmad,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2025
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But being involved in the community also has informed changes.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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And so with perfect timing and wry irony, just as the unremovable blue circle turned up on billions of phones, WhatsApp quietly confirmed the solution.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Emery is intensely private and has a small circle of friends.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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Or maybe Apple could revive its excellent MagSafe battery pack, which was retired when Apple switched from Lightning to USB-C connector on the iPhone.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Users will get a starter pack of five unique ingredient cards to begin the Ingredient Quest experience.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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The Trump administration has increased enforcement actions targeting violent MS-13 or Tren de Aragua gang members who have entered the country illegally.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
3 May 2025
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Abrego Garcia denies being a gang member and has no criminal convictions.—
Nick Penzenstadler,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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“Coterie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coterie. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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