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sectarian

[sek-tair-ee-uhn] / sɛkˈtɛər i ən /




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Lebanon’s government isn’t only impoverished and outgunned, it’s riven by the same sectarian splits as the society as a whole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

"There is no justification, they are sectarian, and certainly in this instance it is well documented it is young people carrying out the attacks," she told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

It’s difficult to imagine that forcibly collapsing the government of a multiethnic sectarian state of nearly 100 million people produces anything more than a power vacuum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Despite a shared enmity for the United States and Israel, the Shiite and Sunni militias are bitter sectarian foes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

I ask my fellow-workers at the factory; they know nothing and think I am talking of some crazy Yomesh sectarian.

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




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