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It was a fight between the moderate and progressive factions of the Democratic Party.factions = sub-groups
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She's part of the far-right faction of the Republican Party.faction = sub-group
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I think of the motto I read in my Faction History textbook: Faction before blood. (source)Faction = sub-group of people (in this novel, 1 of 5 groups into which people are divided)
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There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit. (source)faction = sub-group
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A faction within Säpo has been supporting him and concealing his criminal dealings. (source)
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Over the last 20+ years dating back to the bombing of the Marine Corps Barracks in Lebanon, various factions of radical Islamic Terrorists have been committing heinous acts of terrorism against the free world. (source)factions = sub-groups
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Beatrice couldn't make out what faction they belonged to, or if they were simply common thugs. (source)faction = sub-group
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But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. (source)factions = sub-groups
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"Evelyn and the factionless are tyrants," Marcus says. (source)factionless = in this novel, people who do not belong to one of the 5 sub-groups into which people are dividedstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in factionless means without and reverses the meaning of faction. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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It was like a newsreel of some factional war in a remote province, where generals cook the livers of their rivals and keep them in plastic baggies.† (source)
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"class collaborationist attitudes," and "ideological factionalism," phrases so fanciful that I gaped when I heard them.† (source)
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"Let's just say," says Tobias, "that for some, death is preferable to factionlessness."† (source)factionlessness = the quality of not belonging to a subgroupstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Number 10: Large Republic: Best Control of Effects of Faction (source)Faction = division into sub-groups
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During the rioting between the Cancellieri and Panciatichi factions in 1502 (source)factions = sub-groups
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At the time I believed that Marcus was working under Dauntless-factionless orders. (source)factionless = in this novel, people who do not belong to one of the 5 sub-groups into which people are divided
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Surely if there were any truth in the notion that reading fiction greatly increased our capacity for empathy then college English departments, which have by far the densest concentration of fiction readers in human history, would be legendary for their absence of back-stabbing, competitive ill-will, factional rage, and egocentric self-promoters; they'd be the one place where disputes are most often quickly and amiably resolved by mutual empathetic engagement.† (source)
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