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Recent Examples of separatist
ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
Pakistan blames Afghans for suicide bombings Militant violence has surged in Pakistan in recent years, much of it blamed on the TTP and outlawed Baloch separatist groups.
—Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
When competing legitimacy claims—theocratic in the north, separatist in the south, republican in a shrinking center—override pragmatic accommodation, the unitary state does not endure.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 30 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
Militant violence has surged in Pakistan in recent years, much of which Pakistan blames on the Pakistani Taliban, or TTP, and outlawed Baloch separatist groups.
—ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
Pakistan blames Afghans for suicide bombings Militant violence has surged in Pakistan in recent years, much of it blamed on the TTP and outlawed Baloch separatist groups.
—Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
Noun
Saudi Arabia accused the UAE of aiding a Yemeni separatist, ramping up tensions between the Gulf powers, which are on opposing sides of multiple conflicts.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
When competing legitimacy claims—theocratic in the north, separatist in the south, republican in a shrinking center—override pragmatic accommodation, the unitary state does not endure.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for separatist
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This is to say that a small but very loud part of the fandom (and its antis) has broken into ugly sectarian warfare.—
E. Alex Jung,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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Demonstrators called for the country’s leaders to step down over widespread corruption, government paralysis and failing infrastructure, and for an end to the country’s sectarian power-sharing system.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Then, David is joined by former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to discuss the Trump administration’s overtures to an Albertan secessionist movement, the harm the Trump presidency has done to the American-Canadian alliance, and how Trump is pushing Canada into China’s arms.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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An Iowa Republican lawmaker wants to pursue a study on absorbing counties in Illinois, where a secessionist movement has grown fueled by divisions over the Prairie State's policy direction.—
Marissa Payne,
Des Moines Register,
23 Jan. 2026
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Such was the case this past weekend, when tens of millions of fans keyed in on the denouement of the college basketball season at the expense of lesser spectacles such as spring football and one notoriously schismatic pro golf startup.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which didn't recognize the authority of the Russian church and had been regarded as schismatic, was granted full recognition in 2019 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Orthodoxy's top authority.—
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26 Dec. 2023
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New Delhi vehemently denied the allegations and accused former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government of harboring Sikh extremists of the Khalistan movement.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2026
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The infamous Cinema Rex arson attack in the city of Abadan in southwest Iran in August 1978, in which Islamic extremists barred the doors of the theater and set it alight, killing up to 470 people, is seen as a trigger for the Iranian Revolution of 1979 in which the Islamic Regime come to power.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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