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schism

[siz-uhm, skiz-] / ˈsɪz əm, ˈskɪz- /


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"I can't believe in the long term there will be a schism because it would be a lose-lose for everybody," he said.

From BBC Jul. 30, 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

The scientists watching this schism aren’t sure why things became so belligerent.

From Salon Apr. 23, 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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