disunite

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

"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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

If those States should disunite from the other States, for not including them in the temporary continuance of this traffic, they might solicit and obtain aid from foreign Powers.”

From The Slavery Question Speech of Hon. John M. Landrum, of La., Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 27, 1860 by John M. Landrum

"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

It took the Romans about 45 years to take over most of England and Wales after they invaded in AD 43, arriving in a disunited land dominated by tribal leaders.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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

Bonaparte's design of disuniting Austria from England and treating separately with the emperor was foiled; he could not reject the emperor's proposal, for France was eager for peace.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole

And at the worst, what was decay to him, who could recall the disuniting atoms under the restored law of imperial life?

From Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald

But then, on the other hand, as a counterbalance to these disuniting elements, there was in Dante's Italy, as in Greece, a much greater uniformity of religion common to all than amongst the northern nations.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We are told by the critics of the Gladstonian scheme that federalism is not "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

Oh, we're not tired of fighting yet, Nor ripe for disuniting yet!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various