clannish
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As each story revolves around the perils and power of racial or clannish identity, their sequels would naturally call for advances in inclusion of all kinds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
“That thing where ya break out of your own clannish mentality ta do somethin’ for someone else!”
From New York Times ● May 22, 2022
The characters in this movie — as in a lot of Farr’s other scripts — are clannish, and fiercely protective of their own territory.
From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2019
Indeed, the story of how soccer escaped its gritty, clannish, working-class roots and became an enormous global industry is a central cultural and economic parable of our time.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2018
In general, the Virginians were the chief beneficiaries of all the highly stylized histories, though, as Adams observed, “not a lad upon the Highlands is more clannish than every Virginian I have ever known.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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