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
The scientists watching this schism aren’t sure why things became so belligerent.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
A schism in the House of Windsor looks irreconcilable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Some voters told the BBC they hoped that backing Fuller would avoid another Greene-like schism with the president.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 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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