splinter group
noun
: a group of people that has separated from a larger group (such as a political party)
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One afternoon shortly after the vote, members of the splinter group gathered outside of San Francisco, hiking through the chaparrals of the San Bruno hills, and plotted what to do next.
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Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
Yet the next year Russell and Kendall formed a splinter group called Jack Russell’s Great White that began touring clubs around the country.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
The attacks happened less than three months after gunmen from an Islamic State splinter group stormed a Moscow concert hall, killing 145 people and injuring hundreds.
—Charles Maynes, NPR, 25 June 2024
The Woman Teacher Documents a Feminist Labor Union’s Victory
The UK’s National Union of Women Teachers went from splinter group to union in its own right, winning on equal pay—as The Woman Teacher shows first-hand.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
After attempting to work within Catt’s National American Woman Suffrage Association, Paul soon forms a splinter group, with the more streamlined named National Woman’s Party, and sets out to organize a march in Washington in 1913 on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
There are at least two major Taliban factions, one loyal to Mullah Akhtar Mansour and a new splinter group that emerged earlier this month under Mullah Muhammad Rasoul.
—Robert D. Crews, Foreign Affairs, 26 Nov. 2015
That killing was believed to have been carried out by members of a splinter group who had grown disillusioned with the leadership of Shabazz.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2024
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the next billion-dollar drug.
—Rob Copeland, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
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Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
Yet the next year Russell and Kendall formed a splinter group called Jack Russell’s Great White that began touring clubs around the country.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
The attacks happened less than three months after gunmen from an Islamic State splinter group stormed a Moscow concert hall, killing 145 people and injuring hundreds.
—Charles Maynes, NPR, 25 June 2024
The Woman Teacher Documents a Feminist Labor Union’s Victory
The UK’s National Union of Women Teachers went from splinter group to union in its own right, winning on equal pay—as The Woman Teacher shows first-hand.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
After attempting to work within Catt’s National American Woman Suffrage Association, Paul soon forms a splinter group, with the more streamlined named National Woman’s Party, and sets out to organize a march in Washington in 1913 on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
There are at least two major Taliban factions, one loyal to Mullah Akhtar Mansour and a new splinter group that emerged earlier this month under Mullah Muhammad Rasoul.
—Robert D. Crews, Foreign Affairs, 26 Nov. 2015
That killing was believed to have been carried out by members of a splinter group who had grown disillusioned with the leadership of Shabazz.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2024
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the next billion-dollar drug.
—Rob Copeland, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
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“Splinter group.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/splinter%20group. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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