as in parties
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 factions
Ultranationalist factions, once allied with Britain’s Euroskeptics, have come to the fore across the Continent.
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Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
25 June 2026
Two competing measures designed to cap hospital executives’ pay and limit healthcare union political activities won’t appear on voters’ ballots in November after the rival factions reached a deal to remove them.
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Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
The Democrats’ evolution left many in their old factions, including Archie, to defect from the party.
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Alex Rosado,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2026
Russia, which only takes payment for weapons in advance, according to Baldo, is also enjoying the arms race between the rival military factions.
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Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
Elsewhere Tuesday, two opposing factions of the artificial intelligence industry spent millions on a House race that became a proxy fight over tech regulation.
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Jesse Bedayn,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
The election will offer some measure of the political might of the two AI industry factions.
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ABC News,
23 June 2026
Together, that has strained its finances and politics, with Britain’s historical two-party system fracturing into a patchwork of increasingly tribal alliances and factions.
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Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
23 June 2026
The premise is that, somewhere far away, two rival factions — the Norts and the Southers — are fighting over the toxic planet Nu Earth.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 June 2026
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
25 June 2026
Two competing measures designed to cap hospital executives’ pay and limit healthcare union political activities won’t appear on voters’ ballots in November after the rival factions reached a deal to remove them.
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Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
The Democrats’ evolution left many in their old factions, including Archie, to defect from the party.
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Alex Rosado,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2026
Russia, which only takes payment for weapons in advance, according to Baldo, is also enjoying the arms race between the rival military factions.
—
Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
Elsewhere Tuesday, two opposing factions of the artificial intelligence industry spent millions on a House race that became a proxy fight over tech regulation.
—
Jesse Bedayn,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
The election will offer some measure of the political might of the two AI industry factions.
—
ABC News,
23 June 2026
Together, that has strained its finances and politics, with Britain’s historical two-party system fracturing into a patchwork of increasingly tribal alliances and factions.
—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
23 June 2026
The premise is that, somewhere far away, two rival factions — the Norts and the Southers — are fighting over the toxic planet Nu Earth.
—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for factions
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With the passage of Thursday’s law, both sides have agreed to pull their respective measures from the November ballot, halting campaigns that had both parties amassing tens of millions in funding and blanketing the airwaves with ads.
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Fu declined to comment by phone, and CBS News Atlanta had not received responses from the remaining parties by the time of publication.
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With the passage of Thursday’s law, both sides have agreed to pull their respective measures from the November ballot, halting campaigns that had both parties amassing tens of millions in funding and blanketing the airwaves with ads.
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But Newsom disagreed, and the opposing sides of the measure failed to reach a compromise ahead of the Thursday deadline to withdrawal a measure.
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The Christian religion was only tolerated in the communist dictatorship, and other religious sects were forbidden.
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In an unrelated development, an umbrella group of Hasidic Jewish sects in Williamsburg endorsed Reynoso.
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As the wings become more intense, sliding up the Scoville scale, so does the topic of conversation.
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As a non-technical founder, AI has given you wings.
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Grassroots coalitions have pushed for limits in California and nationwide as parents have become alarmed over how digital activities are replacing hands-on learning and peer interaction.
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But the town hall discussions, community coalitions, public petitions and even farmers’ unions reflect American democracy at work.
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The ball was flying out of the park early and often, as the two teams combined for five total homers in the contest.
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The lopsided defeat spoke loudly to those who believe that tourney’s expansion from 32 to 48 teams was folly.
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Polls give Vannacci’s party single-digit support, but that’s a potentially decisive share when time comes for coalition building, given Italy’s main center-right and center-left blocs are so closely matched.
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Polls put Vannacci's Futuro Nazionale at around 4% to nearly 5%, a potentially decisive share with Italy’s main center-right and center-left blocs closely matched.
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“Factions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factions. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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