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Recent Examples of separatist
Betsy Joles, NPR, 2 Mar. 2025
The region is internationally considered part of Azerbaijan but for decades was under the control of Armenian separatists.
—Caitlin Danaher and Gul Tuysuz, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago and has gobbled up big chunks of the Donbas region that had been controlled by pro-Kremlin separatists since 2014.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
While offering no such counterforce, U.S. miners and engineers would offer juicy targets for Russian special forces or pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine who are disgruntled with Kyiv or U.S. mining efforts.
—William Walldorf, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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The country also continues to struggle with militancy in two of its provinces bordering Afghanistan, where separatists and extremist groups regularly launch attacks on police, soldiers and civilians.
—Betsy Joles, NPR, 2 Mar. 2025
The region is internationally considered part of Azerbaijan but for decades was under the control of Armenian separatists.
—Caitlin Danaher and Gul Tuysuz, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago and has gobbled up big chunks of the Donbas region that had been controlled by pro-Kremlin separatists since 2014.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
While offering no such counterforce, U.S. miners and engineers would offer juicy targets for Russian special forces or pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine who are disgruntled with Kyiv or U.S. mining efforts.
—William Walldorf, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
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Because civil wars and counterinsurgency operations are fought in and among populations, civilians bear the brunt of the harm from these wars, not only by being caught up in deliberate sectarian violence or crossfire but also because they are forced to flee their homes.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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The Assad family, members of the minority Alawite sect, ruled Syria for over half a century until Assad was ousted late last year by Sunni Islamist militants who sought to reshape the country’s political and sectarian order.—
Eyad Kourdi,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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Dodik and other secessionist leaders will realize that nothing is stopping them from dismantling the remaining Bosnian institutions in their territory.—
Ismet Fatih Cancar,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Apr. 2025
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An Austrian secessionist painted iron center table by Thonet stands atop a circa 1900 Russian Bessarabian wool rug in the two-story entrance hall.—
David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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 potential members of a schismatic Catholic sect are located in areas of the world such as the United States, where the church has significant financial resources and assets, plus a wide array of independent Catholic institutions that operate largely outside the hierarchy of the church.—
Massimo Faggioli,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Oct. 2018
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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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