schism
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That schism is more clearly driven by age and education than it is by class.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
But if the growing schism between the tech industry and the broad public is generating bad blood, it also opens a path to reforms that would have been unthinkable a few months ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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
The scientists watching this schism aren’t sure why things became so belligerent.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
And of all the gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek-Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis, and Dionysus.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
Despite later schisms that split Christianity, the council produced a foundational statement of the faith that is still shared by most of the world’s Christians today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
There are schisms on these issues within the U.S. military.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 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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