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schism

[siz-uhm, skiz-] / ˈsɪz əm, ˈskɪz- /


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He denied reports that "there's some kind of schism, that there's some kind of break that happened. In fact, it's not anything like that."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

The Vatican declared a formal schism with the Society of St. Pius X, excommunicating its bishops and priests for consecrating four bishops without papal consent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

At any rate in our family my sons and daughter had always been as one in their thinking: such schism as there was opened between them and us, never between themselves.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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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