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
Black Sabbath, his coterie of paradigm-shifting Birmingham blues rockers and bar brawlers, cultivated a taste for demonic iconography that was as off-putting to normie sensibilities as the gritty tones and discomfiting tempos explored in the hard-partying quartet’s music.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Viewers will see a coterie of the usual MLB advertisers, including MasterCard, but may notice heavier-than-expected showings from restaurants, retailers and pharmaceutical marketers.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 July 2025
Business managers in Hollywood work with coteries of lawyers, agents and assistants in the employ of the town’s filmmakers, entertainers and movers and shakers to project earnings from potential projects, endorsements, brand launches, appearances and other forms of revenue.
—Trey Williams, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
The 10-track project was produced by Carlile and a coterie of A-list producers, including Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Viewers will see a coterie of the usual MLB advertisers, including MasterCard, but may notice heavier-than-expected showings from restaurants, retailers and pharmaceutical marketers.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 July 2025
Business managers in Hollywood work with coteries of lawyers, agents and assistants in the employ of the town’s filmmakers, entertainers and movers and shakers to project earnings from potential projects, endorsements, brand launches, appearances and other forms of revenue.
—Trey Williams, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
The 10-track project was produced by Carlile and a coterie of A-list producers, including Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coterie
Noun
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The Giants' pass rush should get a boost from the home crowd and prevent this from being easy for Patrick Mahomes and Co.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Other clips depict engines roaring with huge crowds and fireworks being set off.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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David Long has also played for a bunch of teams and was in Los Angeles when Evero was with the Rams, though, as stated before, his former proteges haven’t necessarily led to consistently strong results in Carolina.—
Mike Kaye
September 10,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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The linen gets softer with every wash, too, and the interior 100% polyester fill won’t shift or bunch up.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Sep. 2025
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The big story For years now, India's auto market has been a cozy little clique of Japanese, Korean and Indian companies, with the top six carmakers holding more than 90% of the market, catering to local consumers' mostly utilitarian preferences.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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At the Dallas Street property, small cliques of armed men, mostly Venezuelans and Mexicans, fought an ongoing turf war.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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But the virtual absence of the major broadcast networks across the board elsewhere only underscored how dramatically the business has shifted to streaming platforms.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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By making the cameras solar-powered and connected over cell networks, Flock brought the technology within reach of smaller towns and departments that couldn’t afford earlier systems.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The report generated concerted pushback from the scientific community.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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An elevator connects all the different levels, with the high-altitude location offering sweeping views of the surrounding community, from downtown Boulder to the university campus to the surrounding Flatirons.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
10 Sep. 2025
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Heavy trucks account for about two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide annually, not to mention other emissions, so seeking cleaner alternatives to power them is a major priority in environmental circles.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Sep. 2025
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Another, also built from white disks on a bending wire, evokes a mechanized Japanese cherry tree, its circles—perched high on a narrow stem—not revolving so much as brushing quickly past one another.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Ross, one of the Democrats to decline AIPAC money, is a relative centrist, according to a GovTrack scorecard, while Foushee and McGarvey, Kentucky’s only House Democrat, are in the middle of the pack ideologically.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Of course, the only reason Oracle is in this position is down to Ellison’s courting of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, which has allowed his company, previously a distinct back-of-the-pack cloud company, to secure a massive stockpile of top-of-the-line Nvidia GPUs.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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In Don’t Get High, an alpha dork and her merry gang of dweebs start an anti-drug group at their high school to make friends and influence people.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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This week, 32 member states of the OAS issued a joint statement supporting efforts by the United States and Panama to field a more aggressive force into Haiti to fight the gangs.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Coterie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coterie. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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