clique

In one of the report's strongest criticisms, the committee said: "A company described by its leadership as having a 'family feel' is perhaps better described as an unaccountable clique."

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

The robber clique turns out to have its own bosses, too, as well as the most visible fractures in their unit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

His clique at OpenAI became known as “the pandas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 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

Megan and her little clique huddle together, as far away from me as possible.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

A cooperating witness — whose name was withheld in court filings — testified that members from multiple cliques gathered in a parking area before walking up a dirt path in the dark.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Our best leaders have helped deliver the progress so far, but all leaders will need to do more as we eradicate the embedded cliques and networks left behind as we clear out the volume.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

“Unlike high school cliques, in the political world, you didn’t have to be pretty, athletic, funny, or cool,” Stout recounted in her Substack.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 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