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Recent Examples of separatist
Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
His call was backed by some opposition groups in exile as well as some separatist groups within the country, but the Islamic Republic has stood firm.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Russia seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014 and backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, a move that was widely condemned by the international community.
—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
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Russia has maintained a military occupation in two territories in Georgia — South Ossetia and Abkhazia — since invading and backing separatist movements in 2008.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
His call was backed by some opposition groups in exile as well as some separatist groups within the country, but the Islamic Republic has stood firm.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
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The Kremlin seized control of Crimea, the peninsula to the south of mainland Ukraine, back in 2014, and propped up separatist groups in Donetsk and Luhansk.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Russia seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014 and backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, a move that was widely condemned by the international community.
—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
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Advertisement The alternative to organized, transparent, legal accountability is vigilantism and generalized revenge attacks which threaten to spill over into sectarian violence, and risk destabilizing Syria’s fragile transition.—
Robin Yassin-Kassab,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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Syria’s new government must quash the sectarian violence that threatens to derail the nation’s post-Assad progress.—
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3 Sep. 2025
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This scuttles a compromise, whereby paintings of Lee in his prewar blue Army uniform could remain while the portrait of Lee the secessionist and enslaver came down.—
Time,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Watch The Fall Guy on Amazon Prime Video Civil War In this A24 dystopian thriller, America is mired in a brutal civil war between a dictatorial federal government and secessionist factions.—
James Mercadante,
People.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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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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Burns said Huntington Beach is not the only city where vigils and community gatherings have been co-opted by extremists.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
16 Sep. 2025
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Still, a recent study by the libertarian Cato Institute found more politically motivated killings in the United States come from right-leaning extremists.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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