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Recent Examples of separatist
Daniel D'addario, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
Russia has maintained a military occupation in two territories in Georgia — South Ossetia and Abkhazia — since invading and backing separatist movements in 2008.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
Daily Briefing, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2025
It was once even attacked with grenades by Muslim separatists in the Philippines in a 1991 terrorist incident that left two evangelists dead.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Is there a political dimension to the cult being so insistently separatist from hearing society?
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
Russia has maintained a military occupation in two territories in Georgia — South Ossetia and Abkhazia — since invading and backing separatist movements in 2008.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
In 1992: In the second day of a standoff in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, an FBI sniper opened fire on white separatist Randy Weaver, killing his wife.
—Daily Briefing, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2025
It was once even attacked with grenades by Muslim separatists in the Philippines in a 1991 terrorist incident that left two evangelists dead.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for separatist
Adjective
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Syria has experienced a wave of sectarian violence since the revolution to overthrow Assad.—
Chris Massaro,
FOXNews.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Its leaders seek to exploit the country’s sectarian and ideological divisions to recruit new fighters and rebuild their caliphate.—
Caroline Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Adjective
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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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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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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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