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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

"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

Then a dispute arose as to the best means of continuing the pursuit, which threatened to disunite Fuller and Murphy.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

"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

"Let us prove these extremists wrong, and show that even when we disagree we will never be disunited from our common values of decency and respect."

From BBC Mar. 1, 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

Though politically disunited, the Greeks, who began to refer to themselves as Hellenes after the mythical king Hellen, did share a common language and religion.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 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

On disuniting the iron helix, the magnet caused with the copper helix alone still stronger deflection in the same direction.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

But the barbarity of my fate soon saved her the task of disuniting us.

From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

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

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

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




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