schism
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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
"I can't believe in the long term that there will be a schism because it would be a lose-lose for everybody," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
His comments resurface an AI-safety dispute that was core to Anthropic’s schism with the Pentagon earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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
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
Despite later schisms that split Christianity, the council produced a foundational statement of the faith that is still shared by most of the world’s Christians today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 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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