schism
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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
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 scientists watching this schism aren’t sure why things became so belligerent.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
The schism was to last over eighty years.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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
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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