Thesaurus results for SECTS

sects

noun

plural of sect

as in factions

a group of people acting together within a larger group one sect of medical researchers holds the minority view that the disease is not caused by that virus

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Recent Examples of sects Most Buddhist sects acknowledge the spiritual significance of relics, even if some teachers have tried to shift the focus to Buddha’s teachings that emphasize mindfulness and kindness. —

Deepa Bharath, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2026 Most Buddhist sects acknowledge the spiritual significance of relics even if some teachers have tried to shift the focus to Buddha's teachings that emphasize mindfulness and kindness. —

ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026 Their ideology spilled across countries and continents and even reached other Islamic sects, including rival Sunnis. —

Robin Wright, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026 There is no single Sharia code, similar to how there is no single body of law for the hundreds of Christian sects throughout the world. —

Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026 But this year, Christian leaders across sects—including Catholics, Evangelicals, and Baptists—sounded the alarm on AI’s potential impact on family, human relationships, labor, and the church itself. —

Andrew R. Chow, Time, 23 Dec. 2025 But Landor’s appeal is backed by dozens of 30 religious and civil rights groups from across the ideological spectrum and representing large and small sects. —

Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025 Just like there are many sects of Judaism or Christianity, there are many ways to be Muslim. —

Deena Elgenaidi, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025 And Hezbollah, as the most heavily armed and violent element of Lebanon’s menagerie of factions and sects, wanted the guns without the responsibility. —

Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025

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Pahlavi has also contributed to high level international coalitions, including the Munich Security Conference, to build the National Cooperation Platform, to unify diverse political factions.

— Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2026
Kurds make up about a tenth of Iran’s population, and the ethnic group’s other national factions in Iraq and Syria have allied with the US in prior decades to fight those countries’ rulers.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 5 Mar. 2026