separatism

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Recent Examples on the Web However, due to the sense of separatism in Japan—which dates back to the 1630s when the Tokugawa shogunate cut off the archipelago from the rest of the world, according to The New York Times—Tamaki’s parents disapproved of her relationship with Francois, which led to their estrangement. Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 3 July 2024 Colonial policy sowed seeds of separatism among South Asian Muslims not only frustrated by systemic discrimination but nostalgic for former Mughal glories. Nahal Sheikh, JSTOR Daily, 15 May 2024 Dunst wears that exhaustion throughout her body; even her eyes have gone aloof, helping the film’s realistic portrait of American separatism feel terrifyingly inevitable. Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024 Not long after the farm bills died, RSS affiliates began claiming their rollback was necessary to stop separatism from growing among Sikhs. Blaming Khalistanis for the agricultural defeat has not been easy, and for a very simple reason: within India, there is no Sikh separatism to speak of. Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for separatism 

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“Separatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatism. Accessed 15 Oct. 2024.

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