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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

"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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

As to individuals, other methods were employed with them; in order so thoroughly to disunite every party, and even every family, that no concert, order, or effect, might appear in any future opposition.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"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

"Let us prove these extremists wrong, and show that even when we disagree we will never be disunited from our common values of decency and respect."

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 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

He saw a simple, sincere face that was incapable of subtlety or guile, an honest, frank face with disunited large eyes, rusty hair, black eyebrows and an unfortunate reddish- brown mustache.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

And at the worst, what was decay to him, who could recall the disuniting atoms under the restored law of imperial life?

From Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald

Valancourt yielded to these remonstrances, and her affecting entreaties drew from him a promise, that, however Montoni might persist in his design of disuniting them, he would not seek to redress his wrongs by violence.

From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

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

Her heart drooped as she revolved the necessity of disuniting their fates; but that this disunion was proper could not admit of doubt.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

Why may she not be induced to give up the hope of disuniting us, and, while she hates me, continue her affection for thee?

From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown




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