sow dissension
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The hope is clearly to sow dissension within the ranks of his corrupt police and security forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
Some expressed outrage over the disclosure of the document, calling it a gross breach of protocol at the court and an attempt to sow dissension within it.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022
It created knockoff accounts, such as Black Matters, and outright false ones, such as Blacktivist, to amplify content that was primarily intended to sow dissension.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2018
Tillerson, a former CEO of ExxonMobil, said news reports about his differences with Trump were the work of people trying to sow dissension.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2017
And this he did, either because he hated the Commons more than the nobles, or that he would sow dissension between the two.
From Stories From Livy by Bartolomeo Pinelli
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