schism

Example Sentences

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A schism in the House of Windsor looks irreconcilable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

"This is a schism, even if they don't want to say that," Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford in England, told the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

How to handle inside information is already generating a schism in the prediction-market world.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Does it reflect a schism within the military over its propriety?

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

The Brownings’ elopement created a schism between their families. sherbet.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner