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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

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

"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

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

"Celtic disunited are not the Celtic that people should be aware of," he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

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

Recom. concerning the disuniting of the paroch of Abirchirdar, Ib.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

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

And, in fact, the emperor, as the only means of disuniting his two powerful vassals, felt himself obliged to cede Valenciennes and the islands of Zealand to Baldwin.

From Holland The History of the Netherlands by Thomas Colley Grattan

If all the nebulous molecules of which these rings are composed had continued to cool without disuniting, they would have ended by forming a liquid or solid ring.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson

If all the molecules of the ring of vapor continued to condense without disuniting, they would at length form a ring either solid or fluid.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams


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