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schism

[siz-uhm, skiz-] / ˈsɪz əm, ˈskɪz- /


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That schism is more clearly driven by age and education than it is by class.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

His comments resurface an AI-safety dispute that was core to Anthropic’s schism with the Pentagon earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

As in 1988, the society's future bishops will be consecrated without assigned jurisdiction from Rome, in a situation the group claims precludes any schism or excommunication -- though the Vatican views the matter differently.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

The first mention of a football team in Pachuca came in 1892, with a local newspaper article reporting on a reorganisation of the team due to a "schism".

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

Amity would not allow a schism; no one in Abnegation would be so selfish; Candor would argue until they found a common solution; and even Erudite would never do something so illogical.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Instead, the pretrial this month resurfaced the schisms.

From Slate Jul. 21, 2026

It is a long-held tenet of the theater that the most interesting characters, like the most interesting people, are defined by their schisms and paradoxes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

The schisms underscore the growing fragility of the nascent coalition in the waning days of its founder.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2025

England's political and religious schisms would lead it to a midcentury civil war.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2024

Feverishly he followed in periodicals the Dadaist movements and schisms, the strangely feminine jealousies and religiousness, the obscurantisms of the forming and breaking schools.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck




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