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Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste won the electoral district of Terrebonne, north of the city of Montreal, by just one vote, flipping a seat that had long been held by the Bloc Québécois, Canada’s Quebec separatist party.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025 -
Cameroon, with its longstanding Anglophone separatist insurgency and jihadists forcing thousands to flee their homes, is particularly at risk.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
10 Oct. 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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Musk’s incendiary political rhetoric and endorsement of AfD, Germany’s extremist, anti-immigrant party, have weighed on left-leaning consumers’ interest in the Tesla brand there.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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The pitch helped the Democratic nominee withstand Earle-Sears’ attacks on cultural issues, notably the Republican’s assertion that Spanberger is an extremist on transgender rights.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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With the treaty up for renewal, a group of Black World radicals seeks to stop the agreement so that demons can wipe out humans and overtake our existence.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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Young radicals weren’t the only ones who sought Moore out.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Separationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separationist. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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