clique

New ideas were flowing from conversations with members of his Book Club, the clique of senior figures in business and politics bonding over the short novels they had time to read.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The “Mormon Wives,” a group of women associated with the social media clique known as #MomTok, never neatly fit the internet’s definition of tradwives, either.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

The movie briefly introduces us to that clique: dreadful girls who greet Bonnie with a listless, tone-perfect “Hey.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Miller was popular in the sense that she was part of a clique and had social status, but her former classmates said that popularity shouldn’t be confused with being well liked.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

We kind of have our own little clique now.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes

Within this large group, cliques were formed but they often intermingled and share territory, like something from a simian Pixar film.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

But he brings out the idiosyncratic joys of the Mets roster—even its counterrevolutionary cliques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Most didn’t stay in one place for long but instead formed temporary cliques based on the games they played.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

"Much more needs to be done to tackle the individuals and cliques whose appalling behaviour continues to let down their colleagues and Londoners," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

We fail to appreciate that it is a tiny bubble in a vast multiverse of other cliques.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

So the thing about Elon Musk is that he’s cliqued up — specifically with the so-called PayPal Mafia.

From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2022

The Frenchmen are cliqued against him, for Vieuxtemps has arrived, and they mean to maintain his superiority.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by George Willis Cooke