How to Use alliance in a Sentence
alliance
noun
- There is disagreement within the alliance about how to deal with this problem.
- There has been a pattern of shifting alliances in the political world.
- We need to form a closer alliance between government and industry.
- The article condemns what some say is an unholy alliance between government and media.
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But that alliance was very, very, very strong and very solidified.
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Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
24 Oct. 2024
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These assortative alliances will be fully voluntarist—to be joined and abandoned as one pleases.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2024
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Another will examine funding and support for an alliance of students of color.
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Susan Svrluga,
Washington Post,
20 Feb. 2023
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Barbara Munker/picture alliance via Getty Images The gifts don't stop there.
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Caitlin O'Kane,
CBS News,
10 Mar. 2023
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Transactional relationships abound, along with shifting alliances, dirty tricks and lusty proclivities against a backdrop of new money and old.
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Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Oct. 2024
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At the end of the day, my own alliance turned on me and voted me out.
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Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
20 July 2021
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The two groups are in an alliance against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
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SFChronicle.com,
5 Nov. 2019
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This was often the rhythm of such alliances in those days.
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Lynn Freed,
Harper's Magazine,
27 Apr. 2020
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If the alliance crumbles, buyers will be among the losers.
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Dallas News,
10 Oct. 2020
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The two have remained in contact, and the alliance led to these practices.
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cleveland,
19 Aug. 2021
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That means there's a decent amount of talk about the future of the alliance at the beginning of the episode.
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Kyle Fowle,
EW.com,
28 Sep. 2020
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To be one of the young guys on the way up, its pretty awesome just to be a small part of this alliance.
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Bob Nightengale,
USA TODAY,
15 Jan. 2021
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Ankara, however, hasn't always been a thorn in the side of the alliance.
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Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati,
CNN,
29 June 2022
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And then there’s the unholy alliance of toilet seats and food.
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Nora Taylor,
Curbed,
2 Jan. 2024
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But one of the alliance members got burned this week in a scene that never made it to TV.
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Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
27 Apr. 2023
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Macalester, which is in St. Paul, is one of six founding members of the new alliance.
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Ryan Faircloth,
Star Tribune,
10 Nov. 2020
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So much for Josh's promise, and so much for that vet alliance.
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Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
4 Nov. 2021
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June and the Lawrences need to get out — which is what makes their alliance so possible and so thrilling.
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Elena Nicolaou,
refinery29.com,
25 July 2019
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To the English, this alliance was the first glimmer of hope that their weak colony might survive.
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National Geographic,
19 Nov. 2020
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Their old allies hate them, and their new alliance doesn’t trust them.
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Stephen Fishbach,
PEOPLE.com,
30 Oct. 2019
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By 2019, none was left to oppose the alliance with Ben-Gvir’s Kahanists.
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Anshel Pfeffer,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2024
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The Northwest Arkansas Food Bank is part of the alliance.
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Stacy Ryburn,
arkansasonline.com,
23 Dec. 2023
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The two men were at odds, and Polyperchon knew an alliance with Olympias could be useful.
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National Geographic,
3 Dec. 2019
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Nielsen is among the entities that have struck an alliance with EDO.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
2 May 2024
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The deal, which was brokered by China, isn’t an alliance.
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The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
10 Mar. 2023
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An alliance that proved to be only as good as the paper it wasn’t printed on.
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oregonlive,
29 July 2022
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