clique
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Independent non-executive chair Chris Train stepped down on Friday after the report described the firm's leadership as an "unaccountable clique".
From BBC • May 1, 2026
Set in a Dallas shopping mall, “Forbidden Fruits” revolves around an elite clique of retail employees who run a witches’ coven out of the basement of their boho boutique Free Eden.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
So they focus on the people, who are quite the colorful clique of keglers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 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
When we are apprentices in our chosen specialty, we join a clique in which, it seems to us, everyone else seems to know so much!
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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