as in parties
a group of people acting together within a larger group
several factions within the environmental movement have joined forces to save this wilderness area
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Recent Examples of factions
The ongoing war between woke and anti-woke factions is a fatuous melodrama best left to the satirists.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
Both political factions’ cronies continually flatter and lie to them about how things are going.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
29 June 2026
The announcement comes ahead of a visit to the United States by new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, with Washington exerting pressure on Baghdad to ensure the factions turn in their weapons.
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Khaled Wassef,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Ultranationalist factions, once allied with Britain’s Euroskeptics, have come to the fore across the Continent.
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Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
25 June 2026
Two competing measures designed to cap hospital executives’ pay and limit healthcare union political activities won’t appear on voters’ ballots in November after the rival factions reached a deal to remove them.
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Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
The Democrats’ evolution left many in their old factions, including Archie, to defect from the party.
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Alex Rosado,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2026
Russia, which only takes payment for weapons in advance, according to Baldo, is also enjoying the arms race between the rival military factions.
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Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
In Tehran, factions of hard-liners may exact a heavy political price from leaders who compromise with the West, a lesson learned by President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after the 2015 nuclear deal.
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Monica Duffy Toft,
The Conversation,
25 June 2026
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
Both political factions’ cronies continually flatter and lie to them about how things are going.
—
Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
29 June 2026
The announcement comes ahead of a visit to the United States by new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, with Washington exerting pressure on Baghdad to ensure the factions turn in their weapons.
—
Khaled Wassef,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Ultranationalist factions, once allied with Britain’s Euroskeptics, have come to the fore across the Continent.
—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
25 June 2026
Two competing measures designed to cap hospital executives’ pay and limit healthcare union political activities won’t appear on voters’ ballots in November after the rival factions reached a deal to remove them.
—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
The Democrats’ evolution left many in their old factions, including Archie, to defect from the party.
—
Alex Rosado,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2026
Russia, which only takes payment for weapons in advance, according to Baldo, is also enjoying the arms race between the rival military factions.
—
Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
In Tehran, factions of hard-liners may exact a heavy political price from leaders who compromise with the West, a lesson learned by President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after the 2015 nuclear deal.
—
Monica Duffy Toft,
The Conversation,
25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for factions
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With the passage of Thursday’s law, both sides have agreed to pull their respective measures from the November ballot, halting campaigns that had both parties amassing tens of millions in funding and blanketing the airwaves with ads.
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Fu declined to comment by phone, and CBS News Atlanta had not received responses from the remaining parties by the time of publication.
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Kessler and the Jazz had been in contract talks, and the two sides met in person in early June, but those discussions didn’t go very far toward a resolution.
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The bagel shop, which offers an array of sandwiches, sides and sweets, will fill the former Java’s Brewing Bakery and Café space at 1526 Providence Road S.
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The Christian religion was only tolerated in the communist dictatorship, and other religious sects were forbidden.
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In an unrelated development, an umbrella group of Hasidic Jewish sects in Williamsburg endorsed Reynoso.
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The butterflies can be found with dots on the wings, indicating how the species is being tracked by different conservation groups.
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For Brooklyn, those dates arrive with a roster still short in the middle and crowded on the wings.
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Women build communities, launch initiatives, and create coalitions on shoestring budgets while the institutional resources that would let those efforts scale remain largely inaccessible.
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Grants will fund coalitions of two or more organizations, such as healthcare providers, local health departments and organizations with experience in food assistance and distribution.
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The result of Saturday night’s match in Arlington will not affect how either of those teams make it in.
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In the meantime, mission teams on the ground are keeping Swift at least 185 miles above Earth, where the boost mission has the best chance of success, NASA said.
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The global technology stack is splintering into rival blocs that no longer share standards, priorities, or even a common definition of winning.
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That has raised concerns that the next era of wireless communications—headlined by 6G and Wi-Fi 8—will result in the world’s three largest economic blocs adopting three incompatible wireless spectrum models.
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“Factions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factions. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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