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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Noun
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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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Five-year and single-year growth rankings in the new census data are littered at the top with communities across the Carolinas, big and small.—
John Marks,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Mar. 2026
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The network, which coordinates security for Jewish communities in North America, hosted the national security briefing ahead of Passover and amid rising global tensions.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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Efforts to enable reversible, two-way actuation have led to the development of systems such as semi-crystalline networks and liquid crystalline elastomers, which depend on structural alignment under applied stress.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Mar. 2026
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Tea brands and toy retailers have also grown their overseas networks.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Famous in feminist circles for her Abortion Every Day Substack, which forensically chronicles how reproductive rights are being curtailed law-by-law, state-by-state, Valenti lays out the political and legal landscape of post-Roe America in this short, succinct book.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Mar. 2026
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Greco has become known in local art circles for his hyper-realstic painting style.—
Lisa Gutierrez
March 20,
Kansas City Star,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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As spring break travel winds down, airports across the country are still dealing with heavy crowds and long security lines, amid the partial government shutdown.—
Marissa Armas,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Advantaged by a much higher rate of sellout crowds than the norm on the West Coast, San Diego State’s men’s basketball program nonetheless is facing stiff economic challenges, as does the school’s football program and, above all, the athletic department as a whole.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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These packs can be multiple deodorants or packs of deodorant paired with other Old Spice products such as soaps and shampoos.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Coyote packs typically include two to seven dogs.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
19 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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Violence perpetrated by gangs resulted in at least 1,424 people killed and 790 injured; operations against gangs led by security forces, meanwhile, caused at least 3,497 deaths and 1,742 injuries; attacks against gangs by self-defense groups have caused at least 598 deaths and 76 injuries.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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He was set to be imprisoned at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT, despite a judge's 2019 order that blocked his deportation there on the grounds that he could be harmed by local gangs.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Coteries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coteries. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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