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schism

[siz-uhm, skiz-] / ˈsɪz əm, ˈskɪz- /


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You could ache for the cozy city of the past in “The Royal Tenenbaums” or grabble with the schism of everything suddenly feeling different in “Mulholland Drive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

His death in battle there in the 7th Century cemented the schism between Shia and Sunnis.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Apple’s announcement widened the schism between the companies powering the AI buildout, and those that are their key consumers.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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

Still, the absence of these supportive relationships must have hurt, despite his role in the schism.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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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