as in cliques
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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Their parties became notorious even in my own cliques; my parents knew to expect at least a few dozen teenagers crashing their party, sucking down all the noodles, and sneaking beers in the canyon down below.—
Natasha Pickowicz,
Vogue,
20 Feb. 2026 -
This graph had no cliques — clusters of nodes that are all connected to one another.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026
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Nine San Diego County communities reported record high temperatures Wednesday as the region’s long heat wave continued and seasonal weather won’t broadly return until early next week, the National Weather Service says.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Mar. 2026
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Official samba schools began forming in the 1930s, bringing the (previously criminalised) dance into the mainstream and celebrating an art form produced by Rio’s favela communities (Afro-Brazilian heritage is still at the heart).—
Laura French,
TheWeek,
18 Mar. 2026
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This property is crucial for generating quantum entanglement between distant nodes, another cornerstone of future quantum communication networks, as per the release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Mar. 2026
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That’s a problem since minor league sports are far less popular with fans and less attractive to television networks and other key partners.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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Among critics and in press circles, Wahlberg is a bit of a tarnished superstar after that petulant display, but audiences still love their Jack Dawson.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2026
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Collins has finished with a winning record in five of his eight seasons at the helm and is known in basketball circles for his ability to develop under-the-radar players.—
Grace Raynor,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Officials estimated crowds to near one million visitors for South Boston parade on Sunday.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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Those who did spend a day in the sun were what appeared to be the average crowds the city sees outside Spring Break.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
15 Mar. 2026
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Six packs of lamb legs were above cold holding temperature.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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Police found 27 packs of baseball cards hidden under Smith’s clothing and in a cardboard box, per the court documents.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026
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For almost as long, these two clans have also been intimate friends (and relations) of the Pelosi family.—
James Reginato,
Vanity Fair,
5 Mar. 2026
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Salvation takes place in a mountainous region of Turkey where two Kurdish clans have grown up in constant distrust of each other.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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The Placer County Sheriff's Office said some members of the network were allegedly affiliated with a Mexican drug trafficking organization as well as Sacramento-area drug and firearms trafficking gangs.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 2026
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The mining gangs are often armed and violent in protecting their territory and are controlled by criminal syndicates, authorities say.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Coteries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coteries. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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