Thesaurus results for FACTIONS

factions

noun

plural of faction

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 Aldermen tested their chances of improving the deal for months, an effort first reported by the Tribune that saw various City Council factions pledge to reject a sale for a host of reasons. — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026 The result is a fractured country, with the Houthis controlling the capital and the northwest, and the government and allied factions holding much of the south and east. — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026 While there is no suggestion of any kind of confrontation, there were tensions between different factions in the dressing room as Rosenior’s tenure unravelled. — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Castro’s death could also spark the sort of power struggles among factions that usually follow the death of an authoritarian leader. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026 In the last decade and a half, a carrousel of feuding political factions took turns governing, all inadequately. — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 This movement is composed of various factions, as Laura Field has distilled in her authoritative work Furious Minds. — Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026 Sinaloa has been engulfed for nearly two years in a bloody conflict between rival factions of the cartel that bears the state’s name. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 Her research shows how the struggle to reconcile conflicting factions and form a collective challenge to oppressive beauty standards gained strength. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026

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Supported by both major political parties, and Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter, the Equal Rights Amendment was sent to the states for ratification.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Lawmakers in both parties are expected to introduce legislation to establish a federal film & TV tax incentive as soon as Thursday, according to sources familiar with the plans.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of parties

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Room for Disagreement For Oman, Qatar, and Pakistan, these economic and security costs may add urgency in their push to press all sides to a resolution.

— Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Also high on the agenda is a trade truce that saw both sides lower tariffs and export restrictions, which is set to expire in November.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of sides

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Like other faith-healing sects, the Followers sought answers elsewhere.

— Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026
Grand jury testimony portrayed the shooting as a culmination of a longstanding feud between rival record labels — Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records — and rival gang sects Mob Piru and South Side Compton Crips.

— Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

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If you have ever been stuck in traffic wishing your car could sprout wings, Samson Sky has been working on something pretty close.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Here are seven tips that make a real difference in texture, plus an easy recipe for the buttery, tangy lemon pepper wet wings Atlanta knows and loves.

— Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of wings

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Similarly to De Soto, residents in Emporia, El Dorado, Ottawa, Osawatomie and Edgerton have formed their own coalitions and circulated petitions to ban data centers in their respective communities.

— Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026
Both parties emerged from the progressive era as messy coalitions of diverse constituencies and interests, not uniform ideologies.

— Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of coalitions

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IvyCraft is designed for researchers, students, educators, content creators, consultants, and teams that regularly turn source material into presentations, videos, podcasts, or visual content.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026
The last time these teams were district foes, Seminole beat the Blue Darters twice in 2023 — including a playoff game.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of teams

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The state is seven years into an insurance market contraction, with regulated carriers freezing business or dropping large blocs of policies.

— Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
But annual trade between the two blocs—currently more than $125 billion—is projected to increase by 40 percent by 2040.

— JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026

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