factional
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He had navigated more than a decade of factional warfare, including close ties to Bo Xilai, the disgraced former Chongqing party boss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
We’re talking about an enormous bureaucratic organization with 2,000 years of weird and troubled history, whose massive internal contradictions and bitter factional disputes are only partly visible to outsiders.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Ordained a priest in 2002, she became the first female Bishop of London in 2018, only four years after the church began allowing women bishops after years of bitter factional wrangling.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
But some backbenchers have complained about "petty factional manoeuvring" and are calling for the decision to be reconsidered.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
For two years now, the Taliban had been making their way toward Kabul, taking cities from the Mujahideen, ending factional war wherever they’d settled.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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