Cliques
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Examples
- Gangs are marked by fraternal feeling, and narrow cliques by intense loyalty to their own codes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They could enjoy life with their cliques as well--passengers invariably divide up into cliques, on all ships. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Only when they were badly frightened would governing cliques or parties desist from some nefarious policy and heed the common good. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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