clique

The “Mormon Wives,” a group of women associated with the social media clique known as #MomTok, never neatly fit the internet’s definition of tradwives, either.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

His clique at OpenAI became known as “the pandas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

Set in a Dallas shopping mall, “Forbidden Fruits” revolves around an elite clique of retail employees who run a witches’ coven out of the basement of their boho boutique Free Eden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Miller was popular in the sense that she was part of a clique and had social status, but her former classmates said that popularity shouldn’t be confused with being well liked.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

I still haven’t figured out why he’s wasting his time on me when he could easily fit in with any clique he wanted.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Some faculty worried Greek life would fuel a party culture and cliques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Multiple sources have previously told BBC Sport Chelsea have a dressing-room culture problem, specifically with cliques forming along language lines.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Within this large group, cliques were formed but they often intermingled and share territory, like something from a simian Pixar film.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

In this milieu, Hollywood A-listers like Will Ferrell and Sharon Stone, who occupy separate cliques nearby, pale in comparison to the mingling artistic luminaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

I didn’t know anyone well enough to sit with them, and lunchtime was a loud mess of cliques and conflicts.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

So the thing about Elon Musk is that he’s cliqued up — specifically with the so-called PayPal Mafia.

From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2022

The Frenchmen are cliqued against him, for Vieuxtemps has arrived, and they mean to maintain his superiority.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by George Willis Cooke