as in clique
a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially
a coterie of old friends who attend all of the home games of the high school basketball team
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Recent Examples of coterie
According to Alessandro Usielli, head of Ford global brand entertainment, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Ford have all worked with the Bond franchise to introduce new models by providing cars for the superspy, his coterie of comely conquests and his villainous adversaries.
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Brett Berk,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2026
Renaissance humanists certainly emphasized a corpus of Greek and Roman classics for the self-fashioned man, the predictable coterie that includes Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Virgil.
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Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
As an ambassador not just for France but for a coterie of brands that have inked lucrative deals with the young star, Mbappé is practiced.
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Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
12 May 2026
On a spring day in 1977, a coterie of filmmakers and moviegoers gathered in a shuttered bathhouse at Piedmont Park.
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Savannah Sicurella,
AJC.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Brett Berk,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2026
Renaissance humanists certainly emphasized a corpus of Greek and Roman classics for the self-fashioned man, the predictable coterie that includes Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Virgil.
—
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
As an ambassador not just for France but for a coterie of brands that have inked lucrative deals with the young star, Mbappé is practiced.
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Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
12 May 2026
On a spring day in 1977, a coterie of filmmakers and moviegoers gathered in a shuttered bathhouse at Piedmont Park.
—
Savannah Sicurella,
AJC.com,
21 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for coterie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coterie
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Social rescue arrives in the form of outgoing cool girl Sonya (Molloy), who takes a shine to Coley after a chance encounter in a coffee shop, and invites her to join her clique.
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Under Meza, player cliques developed, stars were pampered, discipline waned.
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The plebeians have plenty to be furious about, but their representatives, skilled at turning a crowd into a mob, seem hellbent on shoring up their own influence.
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Large-scale events involve tabletop exercises with law enforcement, fire departments, emergency managers and venue officials running through countless scenarios — evacuations, suspicious packages, drones and crowd surges.
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The culmination of the event saw people filtering into the shore to create a circle of colorful surfboards dotted with flowers to toss into the ocean to honor ancestors, invoke healing and celebrate the relationship between Black people and the ocean.
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But even as his social circle broadened, there was perhaps no one more influential on Greenspan than Ayn Rand.
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At the end of the first half of this double episode, Elizabeth Gaines (Linda Purl), advisor to the Vice President, is shot by sniper Tom Walker (Chris Chalk), Brody's fellow POW—and the VP and a bunch of other important people are put in a bunker along with Brody, who plans to blow them all up.
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Her must-have product out of the bunch is this plumping and firming serum.
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Win prizes playing interactive games, network with artists and entrepreneurs and enjoy signature drinks and bar snacks available for purchase.
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The initiative is intended to target transnational criminal organizations, foreign gangs, human trafficking networks and violent criminal aliens operating in the United States.
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To address those concerns, Hulls has committed roughly $15 million to establish the Good Luck Fund, which acquires and preserves properties considered important to the community.
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The listening sessions come after the Board of Managers has made a concerted effort to create a more transparent experience for parents and the community since they were appointed by the TEA in March.
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If you’re all set on shades, why not try a new belt from Madewell, some gold hoops from Jenny Bird, or a multi-pack of Polo Ralph Lauren tube socks?
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Use this 4-pack of meal prep containers for storing leftovers, freshly washed fruits and veggies, or meals prepped in advance.
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At one point, Jessie befriends a gang of tech toys that includes a low-tech potty-training product named Smarty Pants, along with GPS and camera devices Atlas and Snappy.
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Pluverge, an ice cream maker at Taste the Tropics, came to the United States on asylum after he was kidnapped and tortured by gang members in his home country.
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“Coterie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coterie. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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