Sample Sentences for
coalition
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    They don't have the strength alone. They will need to form a coalition.
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    Coalition casualties fell at a similar rate from August 2006 to August 2008….  (source)
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    After Coalition forces toppled the Taliban in 2001, Bin Laden went into hiding after narrowly escaping capture by Coalition forces at Tora Bora in Afghanistan.  (source)
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    My parents were some of the first ones to make it to the camps set up by the coalition between governments.  (source)
    coalition = a group of political entities working together for common interests
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    His favorite biblical verse, Isaiah 1:18, exemplifies his passion for building coalitions: "Come now, let us reason together."†  (source)
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    His techniques were used to positively identify follow-on targets within 24-48 hours and facilitated an accelerated targeting cycle that resulted in the capture of 36 known anticoalition fighters in less than two months of combat operations.  (source)
    anticoalition = opposed to a political group (made of different groups working together)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in anticoalition means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
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    We formed a coalition of thirty-four countries, with financial contributions from Germany and Japan.  (source)
    coalition = a political group made up of different groups working together
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    Gladstone explained that this was no longer in the interest of humanity and that a forcible annexation of Hyperion-under the guise of defending the Web itself-would allow more progressive AI coalitions in the Core to gain power.†  (source)
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    The Team TEN SEALS had been sent out on June 28 as part of a Quick Reaction Force to aid a four-man SEAL reconnaissance team that was outnumbered, out-positioned, and pinned down by anticoalition insurgents in a fierce firefight in the mountainous Kunar Province.  (source)
    anticoalition = opposed to a political group (made of different groups working together)
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    This attitude carried over to Mamaw: All politicians might be crooks, but if there were any exceptions, they were undoubtedly members of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal coalition.  (source)
    coalition = political group (made of different groups working together)
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    He masterfully cobbled together coalitions within Congress to help pass the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964.†  (source)
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    The Syrian air force and their Russian accomplices bombed by day, the Americans and their coalition partners by night.  (source)
    coalition = a political group made up of different groups working together
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    Now Margolies-Mezvinsky runs Women's Campaign International, which coaches women grassroots activists on how to get attention for their causes, run for office, and put together coalitions to achieve their goals.†  (source)
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