as in cliques
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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Noun
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This graph had no cliques — clusters of nodes that are all connected to one another.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026 -
What began as a search for community and understanding turned into an experience that felt akin to the cliques and social hierarchies of high school.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
25 Jan. 2026
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Some religious communities bar menstruating women from common living areas, said Ahsan.—
Sana Noor Haq,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Participants often come from various backgrounds, playing different styles of mahjong, such as Taiwanese, Filipino, Singaporean and American (commonly associated with Jewish communities), which — unlike other the styles — uses a card that is issued annually to set the winning hands for each year.—
Grace Hwang Lynch,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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These elements are vital to electric vehicles, wind turbines, smartphones, medical imaging systems, fiber-optic networks, and military technologies.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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The totals announced on Tuesday included viewership from the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, Peacock, NBC Sports Digital and NFL+.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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The year is 1961, and the jazz legend (played flawlessly by Norway’s Anders Danielsen Lie) is firmly in the grip of a raging heroin addiction, having acquired a taste for the destructive street drug made inexplicably romantic in postwar boho circles.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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The experiment caused a stir among economists and political scientists and people in finance and business circles.—
Suzy Khimm,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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Located some 60 miles north of Los Angeles near the city of Lancaster, California, Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve draws crowds from mid-February through early May to marvel at this state park’s California poppies.—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Feb. 2026
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This weekend, Super Bowl crowds are descending on San Francisco for the first time in ten years—and the timing couldn’t be more apt.—
Julia Black,
Vanity Fair,
8 Feb. 2026
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Delivery apps, freezer-aisle wing packs and an explosion of sauces have all helped drive demand, Kostyo said.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Remember when Valentine's Day meant buying packs of Fun Dip and Sweethearts attached with thoughtful notes for everyone in your class?—
Kylie Petty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Feb. 2026
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Ten clans or more gather at the end of the movie.—
Ingrid Schmidt,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Feb. 2026
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Some of those clans have since dwindled or decamped for more populated areas.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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While the public record does not include explicit names or locations, blockchain forensics firms are often able to associate addresses with certain crypto exchanges or criminal gangs.—
Carlos Garcia,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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The men who spoke to NBC News, as well as the families of former detainees and their attorneys, strongly denied any ties to gangs and said they were unfairly targeted because of tattoos that may be popular in Venezuela and are unrelated to Tren de Aragua.—
Gary Grumbach,
NBC news,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Coteries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coteries. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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