clique
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Another ally says: "He means it when he wants a different approach in the party – he doesn't want a narrow clique."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Mr. de la Espriella isn’t part of that clique.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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
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
Andie, the main character, had two boys who liked her: her best friend, Duckie, who was kind of weird but funny, and this rich guy Blane, who hung out in a snobby clique.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
But cliques within the bloc are emerging to push for change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In the brutal terrain of female cliques, beauty remains a potent, if unreliable, weapon — one which Amos, her grin a glistening pink, wryly acknowledges and critiques.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
Based in a World War II-era housing project on 1st Street, the Rancho San Pedro gang is now divided into six cliques, including two female crews, the Malditas and the Locas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
"Much more needs to be done to tackle the individuals and cliques whose appalling behaviour continues to let down their colleagues and Londoners," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
We started early in the morning and worked until it started to get dark and after only a few hours we drifted into cliques like we were all back in school.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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
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