COTERIE Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

coterie

noun

ˈkō-tə-(ˌ)rē

as in clique

a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially a coterie of old friends who attend all of the home games of the high school basketball team

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Recent Examples of coterie Ida, meanwhile, is a crime society floozy in 1930s Great Depression Chicago, an escort to a coterie of goombahs who take to mentally torturing her over dinner and drinks in a speakeasy. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2026 Upstairs, Roy and his coterie were huddled around a laptop, fiddling with Cluely’s interface. —

Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Kayne has dialed in from her home in Los Angeles, where the evening before, a coterie of friends and colleagues gathered to celebrate the release of her latest book, Pacific Natural Everywhere, published by Rizzoli. —

Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026 Hours after a protester was shot dead by federal agents in Minnesota, a coterie of tech CEOs arrived at the White House for a movie night, said Mike Isaac and Natallie Rocha in The New York Times. —

The Week Us, TheWeek, 10 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for coterie

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Noun

The Republican donors get their roles, splitting their loot with the more pliable components of the Castro clique.

— Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
When a new employee, Pumpkin (Tung), is welcomed into the coven, jealousies emerge, secrets come to the surface, and the toxicity of the clique has deadly consequences.

— Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026