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coalition

[koh-uh-lish-uhn] / ˌkoʊ əˈlɪʃ ən /


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But the coalition of attorney generals has requested that the companies halt the transaction pending judicial review, threatening a temporary restraining order if they do not comply.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

The combined company’s cable holdings, which would be dozens of channels including CNN, MTV, Nickelodeon and Discovery, is also problematic for the coalition.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

The Quaker-inspired coalition also founded New York’s Strother School of Radical Attention, which offers courses and workshops on attention as a practice that, maintained and exerted, makes it easier to recognize and refuse such extraction.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

The Knesset, as parliament is known, is set to end its current term on July 17, allowing the ruling coalition to complete a full four-year term for the first time in decades.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

With the rise of the Populist Party in 1892, farmers and laborers formed the first mass multiracial coalition in the country’s history.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

This year the chief justice prevailed with different coalitions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Local coalitions of neighbors are springing up in the most rural towns and counties as quiet, nature-filled lands are being replaced with loud, energy intensive data centers.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

Welfare politics increasingly shifted from class mobilisation to direct cash transfers and identity-based coalitions.

From BBC May 26, 2026

It could relinquish to nonbelligerents the task of opening the strait, for which coalitions are already assembling.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

When two males are contesting the alpha position, they usually do so by forming extensive coalitions of supporters, both male and female, from within the group.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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