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disunite

[dis-yoo-nahyt] / ˌdɪs juˈnaɪt /


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After so long spent united by shared suffering, Rock argues – no, he preaches – that black people must disunite in order to disown the criminal minority among them.

From The Guardian May 24, 2012

Moscow dismissed it as an attempt "to disunite the Arab countries."

From Time Magazine Archive

"There are far more things that unite Britain and Russia," said Georgy Malenkov at an official dinner in Glasgow later, "than things that disunite us."

From Time Magazine Archive

Every Indian leader except Mohandas Gandhi had agreed that they could not unite, but could not agree how to disunite.

From Time Magazine Archive

For it is easier to disunite what is connected than to connect what is disjointedly strung together.

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Any dissolution of the coalition essentially would make the right of centre look brittle and fragile and disunited," he told AFP.

From Barron's Jan. 22, 2026

She added: "The public didn’t trust us for a whole bunch of reasons - not keeping promises but also looking disunited."

From BBC Nov. 3, 2024

We have entered another age of disunited nations, an era when mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

From Seattle Times Nov. 3, 2023

In early-1980s Britain, dub reggae melded with post-punk in eerie laments of a disunited kingdom, beleaguered by economic decline and interracial strife.

From Washington Post Feb. 8, 2023

They were like Milo’s disunited eyes, which never looked at the same thing at the same time.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Bonaparte's design of disuniting Austria from England and treating separately with the emperor was foiled; he could not reject the emperor's proposal, for France was eager for peace.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole

The disuniting doctrines of unlimited separate State sovereignty were laid aside.

From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. Martin

On disuniting the iron helix, the magnet caused with the copper helix alone still stronger deflection in the same direction.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

Recom. concerning the disuniting of the paroch of Abirchirdar, Ib.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

But then, on the other hand, as a counterbalance to these disuniting elements, there was in Dante's Italy, as in Greece, a much greater uniformity of religion common to all than amongst the northern nations.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge




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