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Recent Examples of separatist
Allison Lampert, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
The separatist Balochistan Liberation Army also claimed attacks that killed almost 50 people.
—Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
Ankara has long regarded the SDF as a terror group because of its ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist group that waged a longrunning insurgency in Turkey.
—Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2026
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Language remains a sensitive issue in mostly French-speaking Quebec, the country's second-most-populous province, where unhappiness over the dominance of English helped the rise of the separatist Parti Quebecois in the 1970s.
—Allison Lampert, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
The separatist Balochistan Liberation Army also claimed attacks that killed almost 50 people.
—Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
If Quebec’s French-Canadian separatist movement and various referenda were ultimately quelled by Canada recognizing that culturally and linguistically unique province as a nation within Canada, then Alberta is headed for a similar result, at best.
—Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
Ankara has long regarded the SDF as a terror group because of its ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist group that waged a longrunning insurgency in Turkey.
—Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2026
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Another response was to drive forward the sectarian religion of the Jesus cult, and that’s where the Pauline initiative took over.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The sectarian pull has a body count.—
Kyle P. Edmonds,
STAT,
9 Apr. 2026
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If nothing is done, the secessionists may achieve success simply for lack of opposition.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 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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Given that Pakistan is home to over 20 million Shia Muslims—the second largest cohort in the world after Iran—open warfare with the only nation with more would be schismatic internally.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
9 Apr. 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 Associated Press reported that Algerian authorities rejected a Vatican request for Leo to visit Médéa to pray at the Tibhirine monastery, the place where seven French Trappist monks were kidnapped and killed May 21, 1996, by Islamic extremists during the country’s civil war.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
12 Apr. 2026
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The country is also plagued by fighting involving Boko Haram militants in the north, as the Islamic extremist group’s insurgency in neighboring Nigeria has spilled over into Cameroon.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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