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Recent Examples of separatist
Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Pakistan has historically supported armed separatist groups in the region, which has been the site of numerous human-rights abuses by the Indian government.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
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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Hengaw said Iran accused them of having links to the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, a separatist group blamed for pipeline bombings and other attacks in the region.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Pakistan has historically supported armed separatist groups in the region, which has been the site of numerous human-rights abuses by the Indian government.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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Wars and insurrections have afflicted other parts of the Middle East, but Baghdad—a city whose name was once synonymous with suicide bombings and sectarian murder—has been spared.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2025
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Bloody Sunday became one of the defining moments of the Troubles, three decades of sectarian violence involving nationalists seeking a united Ireland, unionists wanting Northern Ireland to remain a province of the United Kingdom, and British forces.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
23 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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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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In September, independent journalist Jason Paladino wrote that the Department of Justice appeared to have removed a study that found far-right extremists to be responsible for the most lethal terrorism since 1990.—
NPR,
NPR,
25 Oct. 2025
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The Goldman analysts aren’t extremists like, say, legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, who says AI will automate 80% of all jobs by 2030.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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