schism

He denied reports that "there's some kind of schism, that there's some kind of break that happened. In fact, it's not anything like that."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

You could ache for the cozy city of the past in “The Royal Tenenbaums” or grabble with the schism of everything suddenly feeling different in “Mulholland Drive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The Houthis, predominantly Shia Muslims, and al-Shabaab, which adheres to Sunni Islam, are among the hundreds of millions divided by a seventh-century schism over who was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

"I can't believe in the long term there will be a schism because it would be a lose-lose for everybody," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Though it had been experimenting with other philosophies for several centuries, when threatened with schism it turned orthodox once again.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The clash in early October, seen by the BBC in a video, is one of many in recent months in which one of the deepest schisms in Israeli society has become ever more exposed.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

It is a long-held tenet of the theater that the most interesting characters, like the most interesting people, are defined by their schisms and paradoxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Despite later schisms that split Christianity, the council produced a foundational statement of the faith that is still shared by most of the world’s Christians today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

There are schisms on these issues within the U.S. military.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025

Feverishly he followed in periodicals the Dadaist movements and schisms, the strangely feminine jealousies and religiousness, the obscurantisms of the forming and breaking schools.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck