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Then gas deliveries resumed only to Transnistria, the pro-Russian separatist enclave in Moldova’s east.—
Dan Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025 -
At the end of April 2022, the Russian army moved the Kuindzhi Art Museum's entire collection to a museum in the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic, a separatist and politically unrecognized territory annexed by Russia.—
Yegor Mostovshikov,
The Dial,
9 Sep. 2025
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No Chinese leader will want to suffer the embarrassment of backing down against what the Chinese Communist Party has long framed as a rogue secessionist movement.—
JOEL WUTHNOW,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Sep. 2025
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This scuttles a compromise, whereby paintings of Lee in his prewar blue Army uniform could remain while the portrait of Lee the secessionist and enslaver came down.—
Time,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Nor did Trump mention that attacks by right-wing extremists are more frequent and deadly.—
Laura Yuen,
Mercury News,
24 Sep. 2025
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In Bangladesh, the demise of Hasina’s regime has emboldened religious extremists.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Her first identity was as a Marxist radical.—
Shai Tubali,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
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Upon exposure to light — even regular daylight — punicin forms radicals, giving it properties that vary between light and darkness.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Separationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separationist. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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