Thesaurus results for FACTIONS

factions

noun

plural of faction

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 In the last decade and a half, a carrousel of feuding political factions took turns governing, all inadequately. — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 If the league can successfully divide different groups of players, or if the union can’t successfully unite various factions, players overall will have a tough go. — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026 This movement is composed of various factions, as Laura Field has distilled in her authoritative work Furious Minds. — Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026 Sinaloa has been engulfed for nearly two years in a bloody conflict between rival factions of the cartel that bears the state’s name. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 Her research shows how the struggle to reconcile conflicting factions and form a collective challenge to oppressive beauty standards gained strength. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026 Such beliefs continue in the 21st century, with certain factions making unproven claims about urine’s purported antiviral actions against the COVID-19–causing coronavirus. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026 For the first time, the parade features six grand marshals, each chosen to connect with different factions of the community, Martinez said. — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2026 The threat comes after Iran recently reorganized its military to be more aggressive as factions in the government abandon hopes for negotiations. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026

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Those deals took place under multiple presidential administrations of both parties, and various FTC leaders.

— Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
The district says it should be allowed to use the existing law and that any major changes to California's fiscal oversight system should go through the normal legislative process, including public hearings and input from all involved parties.

— Madisen Keavy, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of parties

Noun

All 350 potential scenarios are tailor-made, and some are influenced by real events, from both sides of the political divide.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 26 Aug. 2026
Club stocks CrowdStrike and Salesforce also report after the bell, and both sides of the enterprise software trade will be tested.

— Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of sides

Noun

Like other faith-healing sects, the Followers sought answers elsewhere.

— Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026
Grand jury testimony portrayed the shooting as a culmination of a longstanding feud between rival record labels — Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records — and rival gang sects Mob Piru and South Side Compton Crips.

— Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of sects

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At night, the lighting turns the wings into a moving field of color while bursts of fire give the dragon the kind of oversized entrance Burning Man was made for.

— Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Common use cases include aircraft fuselages, drone wings, train exteriors, commercial truck bodies, and architectural membranes.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of wings

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And both sets of allies are forming new middle-power coalitions to reduce reliance on Washington, from recent European arrangements with India to the trade agreements Japan is pursuing with Latin America.

— Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Health care affordability will be solved by building durable coalitions around ideas that work in the real world, not just in theory.

— Kody Kinsley, STAT, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of coalitions

Noun

Schmitt proposed that the world would be properly organized by spatial blocs, or Grossräume, dominated by regional hegemons.

— Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026
Tier 1 includes countries and blocs that deal in large volumes of goods tied to China, but also maintain diversified industrial bases.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 20 Aug. 2026

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