faction

Example Sentences

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The Makary-Prasad faction treated flexibility as a loophole to be closed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Although he headed the hardline "principlist" faction - committed to the ideological principles of the Islamic revolution - during his first term, Larijani was described in later years as a "moderate conservative".

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Now, as the Epstein files come out, the country is watching for evidence that either faction is correct.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

Likely between age 8 and 15, she was enslaved by an ethnic Maya faction in present-day Tabasco state, though it is unclear if she was kidnapped or sold.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

Was he nominally working with, or against, Obsle’s faction?

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin