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disunite

[dis-yoo-nahyt] / ˌdɪs juˈnaɪt /


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After so long spent united by shared suffering, Rock argues – no, he preaches – that black people must disunite in order to disown the criminal minority among them.

From The Guardian May 24, 2012

Moscow dismissed it as an attempt "to disunite the Arab countries."

From Time Magazine Archive

"There are far more things that unite Britain and Russia," said Georgy Malenkov at an official dinner in Glasgow later, "than things that disunite us."

From Time Magazine Archive

Every Indian leader except Mohandas Gandhi had agreed that they could not unite, but could not agree how to disunite.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adams had written about the same time that "the only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves is to disunite us."

From The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann

"Any dissolution of the coalition essentially would make the right of centre look brittle and fragile and disunited," he told AFP.

From Barron's Jan. 22, 2026

She added: "The public didn’t trust us for a whole bunch of reasons - not keeping promises but also looking disunited."

From BBC Nov. 3, 2024

We have entered another age of disunited nations, an era when mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

From Seattle Times Nov. 3, 2023

In early-1980s Britain, dub reggae melded with post-punk in eerie laments of a disunited kingdom, beleaguered by economic decline and interracial strife.

From Washington Post Feb. 8, 2023

These intellectual and professional Negroes couldn’t use what they knew for the benefit of their own black kind simply because even among themselves they were disunited.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Her heart drooped as she revolved the necessity of disuniting their fates; but that this disunion was proper could not admit of doubt.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

These still exist; thirty years ago the two first were equal, but the Djonbelat have now got the upper hand, and have succeeded in disuniting the Yezbeky and Neked.

From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt

Why may she not be induced to give up the hope of disuniting us, and, while she hates me, continue her affection for thee?

From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown

Congress, impressed with the belief that the proposals of the Commissioners, instead of disuniting the people, would have a contrary effect, ordered them to be speedily published in the several American newspapers.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

In the case of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, for instance, it clearly is a "plan for disuniting the parts of a united state."

From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Edwin Lawrence Godkin




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