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Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Territory Territory has been a main source of conflict between the two countries since Russia's annexation of Crimea and fomentation of separatist revolt in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2025
Reuters, NBC news, 6 July 2025
This would lead to a situation where remnants of the state are going to be consumed with fighting separatists.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
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Adjective
His call was backed by some opposition groups in exile as well as some separatist groups within the country, but the Islamic Republic has stood firm.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Territory Territory has been a main source of conflict between the two countries since Russia's annexation of Crimea and fomentation of separatist revolt in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2025
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The Nobel laureate is regarded as one of the world’s most influential religious leaders, with a following that extends well beyond Buddhism, but not by Beijing, which calls him a separatist and has sought to bring the faith under its control.
—Reuters, NBC news, 6 July 2025
This would lead to a situation where remnants of the state are going to be consumed with fighting separatists.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
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Syria’s new government must quash the sectarian violence that threatens to derail the nation’s post-Assad progress.—
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3 Sep. 2025
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The militias that make up the PMF have units that operate independently from the Iraqi state and are even more proudly sectarian and loyal to Iran.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 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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One of the American men involved has made a list of Trump supporters in Greenland, with the goal of later recruiting them to establish a secessionist movement on the island, according to the broadcaster.—
Henrik Pettersson,
CNN Money,
27 Aug. 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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The Middle Belt and northern states are especially volatile, with Islamic militant groups like Boko Haram, Fulani extremists and ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province) targeting Christian communities through mass killings, kidnappings and church burnings.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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Only the liberals and the extremists do that.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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