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For members of the Qumran sect, this orderly structure was more than a mathematical convenience.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

According to the study, this changing political environment may have made it easier for the sect to abandon its previously rigid position and adopt the more practical calendar used at the Temple.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

A New Zealand court has jailed a religious sect leader over the death of an elderly follower who had travelled from China to live with his family.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

He is notorious for his threats against a Bollywood actor who shot two blackbucks, a type of antelope that the Bishnoi sect worships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Only a small and militant sect of California writers was siding with Seabiscuit.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Dulles came to believe that religion, specifically an ecumenical Protestantism aiming to promote cooperation among different sects, was the missing link that could provide a moral architecture for the global system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Lebanon, a tiny country measuring just 4,000 square miles on the eastern Mediterranean, has a population of around 5.8 million and officially recognises 18 religious sects.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

"All sects used to celebrate with us, and we hope to see this in the coming years, in order to rebuild Syria," she added.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

In the end, wrote Burger, the track record of the Amish in maintaining alternative modes of informal vocational education was a showing “that probably few other religious groups or sects could make.”

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2025

Moved by the reasons stated above, I believe, the Venetians encouraged the Guelf and Ghibelline sects in their subject cities.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli