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Recent Examples of factious
But the Presidential Leadership Council is itself factious, and external competition leads to contention within it.
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Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
How the factious sides of the Democratic Party handle this will be an important test and will determine whether the race will be close this fall.
—Ray Dalio, TIME, 22 July 2024
There was an illusion of solidarity—really the underlying current was entirely factious.
—The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Sinn Fein appears on track to claim the top spot in elections in Northern Ireland on Thursday, marking the first time a party devoted to the unification of Ireland, north and south, would dominate in the region that remains a factious member of the United Kingdom.
—Washington Post, 2 May 2022
Just like that, a factious age of political gridlock and a problematic romance are born.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2021
The engineers’ hope was that SESAME would revitalize Middle Eastern science and encourage friendly encounters between otherwise factious neighbors.
—Sandra Upson, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2010
Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
How the factious sides of the Democratic Party handle this will be an important test and will determine whether the race will be close this fall.
—Ray Dalio, TIME, 22 July 2024
There was an illusion of solidarity—really the underlying current was entirely factious.
—The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Sinn Fein appears on track to claim the top spot in elections in Northern Ireland on Thursday, marking the first time a party devoted to the unification of Ireland, north and south, would dominate in the region that remains a factious member of the United Kingdom.
—Washington Post, 2 May 2022
Just like that, a factious age of political gridlock and a problematic romance are born.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2021
The engineers’ hope was that SESAME would revitalize Middle Eastern science and encourage friendly encounters between otherwise factious neighbors.
—Sandra Upson, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2010
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“Factious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factious. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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