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Recent Examples of separatist
Robert A. Pape, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
The target was Dzhokhar Dudayev, leader of Chechnya's separatist war against Moscow.
—Robert A. Pape In The Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2026
Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
When competing legitimacy claims—theocratic in the north, separatist in the south, republican in a shrinking center—override pragmatic accommodation, the unitary state does not endure.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 30 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
The target was Dzhokhar Dudayev, leader of Chechnya’s separatist war against Moscow.
—Robert A. Pape, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
The target was Dzhokhar Dudayev, leader of Chechnya's separatist war against Moscow.
—Robert A. Pape In The Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
Saudi Arabia accused the UAE of aiding a Yemeni separatist, ramping up tensions between the Gulf powers, which are on opposing sides of multiple conflicts.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
When competing legitimacy claims—theocratic in the north, separatist in the south, republican in a shrinking center—override pragmatic accommodation, the unitary state does not endure.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for separatist
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The global politics of persecution Over the past two decades, attacks on churches and episodes of sectarian violence in Egypt have drawn international attention.—
Candace Lukasik,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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And the protests were about how grossly the country was being mismanaged, but also that a majority of Lebanese people, across all sectarian groups, were fed up.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Then, David is joined by former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to discuss the Trump administration’s overtures to an Albertan secessionist movement, the harm the Trump presidency has done to the American-Canadian alliance, and how Trump is pushing Canada into China’s arms.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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An Iowa Republican lawmaker wants to pursue a study on absorbing counties in Illinois, where a secessionist movement has grown fueled by divisions over the Prairie State's policy direction.—
Marissa Payne,
Des Moines Register,
23 Jan. 2026
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Such was the case this past weekend, when tens of millions of fans keyed in on the denouement of the college basketball season at the expense of lesser spectacles such as spring football and one notoriously schismatic pro golf startup.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which didn't recognize the authority of the Russian church and had been regarded as schismatic, was granted full recognition in 2019 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Orthodoxy's top authority.—
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26 Dec. 2023
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Yet Ali’s act does not only evoke terrorist incidents such as the Charlie Hebdo attack, perpetrated by Muslim extremists, just a few months prior to The Red Chador.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Italian metal extremist has been going down a rabbit hole of his own with a series of highly technical I, Voidhanger releases marked by extraterrestrial synth work and winding, stop-on-a-dime riffs.—
Sam Goldner,
Pitchfork,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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