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

In one of the report's strongest criticisms, the committee said: "A company described by its leadership as having a 'family feel' is perhaps better described as an unaccountable clique."

From BBC ● May 1, 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

So they focus on the people, who are quite the colorful clique of keglers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

There was even one clique of girls—Rosemary called them “the Snubs”—who never spoke to her, though three were in her Hebrew class and one was actually Rosemary’s cousin.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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

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

Sir Mark also said: "Much more needed to be done to tackle the individuals and cliques whose appalling behaviour continues to let down their colleagues and Londoners".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

I stood in the front of the fine as always, because the back was for the girls who belonged to cliques, girls who giggled and whispered to one another, shielded from the teachers.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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