clique
Example Sentences
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His clique at OpenAI became known as “the pandas.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 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
In Los Angeles, she had a close-knit circle of friends called the "Kitties", according to Marquez, which was a clique of mostly female friends who liked to throw parties - attended by celebrities.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025
The only member of the clique of hyperscalers to authorize new buybacks this year has been Alphabet, which said back in April that it would purchase up to $70 billion.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025
There was one Canadian member of my clique, who always blathered on and on about how her parents had taken the appropriate legal channels to move to the United States.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.