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Recent Examples of separatist
Sarah Yager, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Some Black critics, including W. E. B. Du Bois, denounced his Black separatist views and his relationship with the Ku Klux Klan, who shared Garvey's goal of racial separatism.
—Delano Massey, Axios, 4 Jan. 2025
But the government could always point to separatists in the diaspora.
—Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2024
The breakaway region became a template for what has since been a drive by Russia to keep its influence in former Soviet lands by supporting separatists: first in Moldova, then in Georgia and in eastern Ukraine.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
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The White House rolled out the red carpet for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2023, even after U.S. intelligence had implicated Indian government agents in a conspiracy to kill a Sikh separatist activist on U.S. soil.
—Sarah Yager, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Some Black critics, including W. E. B. Du Bois, denounced his Black separatist views and his relationship with the Ku Klux Klan, who shared Garvey's goal of racial separatism.
—Delano Massey, Axios, 4 Jan. 2025
But the government could always point to separatists in the diaspora.
—Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2024
The breakaway region became a template for what has since been a drive by Russia to keep its influence in former Soviet lands by supporting separatists: first in Moldova, then in Georgia and in eastern Ukraine.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for separatist
Adjective
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The printing press led to the Reformation but also a lot of bloody sectarian warfare.—
Stuart Miller,
Orange County Register,
3 Feb. 2025
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Osip Mandelstam wrote a seminal essay on Dante, which is also an ars poetica, around the time that he was sent into internal exile under Stalin, and Seamus Heaney began a decades-long intimacy with the Comedy in the nineteen-seventies, as sectarian violence in Northern Ireland worsened.—
Elisa Gonzalez,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And if a militarized, semiautonomous, U.S.-backed Kurdish region across the border in Syria continues to harbor fighters and fuel secessionist aspirations, the threat of a PKK resurgence would remain.—
Halil Karaveli,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Feb. 2025
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Sherman, who had taken Atlanta in September, intended to defeat the Confederacy by inflicting on its heartland the terrible consequences of a war the Southern secessionists had begun.—
Brenda Wineapple,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The potential members of a schismatic Catholic sect are located in areas of the world such as the United States, where the church has significant financial resources and assets, plus a wide array of independent Catholic institutions that operate largely outside the hierarchy of the church.—
Massimo Faggioli,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Oct. 2018
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But Barzani’s setback only birthed a schismatic new cadre of Kurdish leaders.—
Behnam Ben Taleblu,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Nov. 2017
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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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