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a group of people acting together within a larger group
several factions within the environmental movement have joined forces to save this wilderness area
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Recent Examples of faction
Senate factions face off Trump's legislation has divided GOP senators.
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Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 24 June 2025
The group has formally endorsed his bid, lending a huge boost from an influential faction boasting almost 40 House members.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 23 June 2025
Another possibility is that Iran could descend into chaos, with competing factions located in different parts of the country.
—Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2025
These internal discussions suggest WWE sees the new faction as a major project.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
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Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 24 June 2025
The group has formally endorsed his bid, lending a huge boost from an influential faction boasting almost 40 House members.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 23 June 2025
Another possibility is that Iran could descend into chaos, with competing factions located in different parts of the country.
—Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2025
These internal discussions suggest WWE sees the new faction as a major project.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faction
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But if the definition of a moderate or centrist is being in the middle of a political party, that’s Trump.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
20 June 2025
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Haley shows strength with liberal Republicans (16 percent), but that bloc makes up a small portion of the party.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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The Peñasquitos Falls Loop via Carmel Valley follows portions of the Los Peñasquitos Canyon Trail on the north and south sides of the creek, marked as North Trail and South Trail. Park along Evans Wood Way, in a residential neighborhood located off Carmel Mountain Road.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 June 2025
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And maybe the playoffs over on that side of the sport would have been a lot sexier if Steph Curry hadn’t gotten hurt.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
23 June 2025
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This, along with composite materials, special coatings, wing design and other classified processes, make the B-2 difficult for even the most sophisticated defense systems to detect and track.—
Ellen Uchimiya,
CBS News,
19 June 2025
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Today is for the wings; tomorrow will be for the bigs.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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Yet some groups remain uneasy about their place in the new Syria, where there have already been mass killings of Alawites, Assad’s minority Muslim sect.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
14 May 2025
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Lebanon's political system is based on sect, mandating that the president be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament a Shiite Muslim.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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The conflict—and America's role in it—has splintered Trump's MAGA coalition, as the movement's isolationist wing stands staunchly opposed to hawkish pro-Trump lawmakers and media figures who favor a more hard-line stance toward Iran.—
Sonam Sheth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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The lone wolf extremist myth diverts from what should be the focus of deterrence efforts: understanding how far-right extremists network, organize and, as the Jan. 6 insurrection showed, build coalitions across diverse groups, especially through the use of social media.—
Alex Hinton,
The Conversation,
17 June 2025
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The money is the fight, everything else these teams throw in.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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Commando teams could attempt onsite reconnaissance but would face obvious risks of attack by Iranian forces.—
Robert A. Pape,
Foreign Affairs,
17 June 2025
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Another potential issue that experts have flagged in discussions around higher defense spending are the European Union’s fiscal rules, which could get in the way of the bloc’s members taking on more debt.—
Sophie Kiderlin,
CNBC,
24 June 2025
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Members in Central and Eastern Europe—united in their suspicion of Russia—supported the idea, but a bloc of NATO’s older members, led by France and Germany, were skeptical.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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“Faction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faction. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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