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breakaway
noun as in secession
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Since 2017, those seeking to create a breakaway state have been fighting government forces.
The former Scottish Premier League football chief is now an investor in, and board member of, rugby union's proposed breakaway R360 league.
Soccer’s proposed European Super League—a breakaway organization of a dozen wealthy teams—was met with widespread uproar in 2021 and folded in just 48 hours.
The conviction relates to a Darfur investigation that the court opened years ago when fighting arose between rebels in the breakaway region of Sudan and armed forces allied with the Sudanese government.
Revamped plans were announced after a top court ruled banning clubs from joining a breakaway league was unlawful.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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