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separatist

[sep-er-uh-tist, -uh-ray-] / ˈsɛp ər ə tɪst, -əˌreɪ- /


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Local officials say he was not only a Basque separatist but also a member of ETA, the militant group that sought to carve out an independent Basque state from Spain and France.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

But separatist leaders projected a starkly different message after the results came in.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, the Parti Québécois won enough seats in last week’s provincial election to form a separatist minority government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The country is also mired in multiple security crises -- from jihadists, non-ideological "bandit" gangs, farmers and herders fighting over land, and a simmering separatist conflict.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

A few minutes before the bell rang, a student asked what role mental disorders might have played in separatist movements.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Stimson was previously jailed in the UK in 2015 for joining pro-Russian separatists in the east of Ukraine.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

When a judge dealt another blow to separatists in May, Smith appealed the ruling and called the referendum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

While she is correct that the separatists who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620 eschewed the pejorative term Puritan, she errantly suggests that they called themselves Pilgrims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

She says that among the men was Yurii Temerbek, a Ukrainian who had been a local traffic policeman and had joined the Russian-backed separatists.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Initial allegiances shifted as the war went on, but in the end, all six of the Iroquois nations were seen as a threat to the separatists.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


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