schism
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The scientists watching this schism aren’t sure why things became so belligerent.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
"This is a schism, even if they don't want to say that," Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford in England, told the BBC.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
How to handle inside information is already generating a schism in the prediction-market world.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
This is the culmination of a profound schism between the U.S. and Europe over what should unite them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026
And of all the gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek-Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis, and Dionysus.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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