coterie

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This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

MetaX Integrated Circuits, the Chinese AI chipmaker and part of a coterie of fast-growing tech stocks known as the “Little Dragons,” enjoyed a wildly successful launch on the Shanghai exchange Wednesday.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 17, 2025

During Newby’s tenure as chief justice, a cartoon has hung in the Supreme Court depicting him as Superman, surrounded by a coterie of conservative appellate justices caricatured as other members of DC Comics’ Justice League.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

Written in collaboration with lyricist Van Dyke Parks, and recorded with a vast coterie of session musicians, the original Smile album, featured groundbreaking songs such as Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains, and Surf's Up,

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

My mother, without her coterie, was often almost as silent as me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson