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splinter group

分裂集团,分裂组织,分裂团体,分裂体

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.

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Examples

  • The Sith created a splinter group, the Inquisitors, as a means to use corrupted Jedi as Imperial agents.

  • Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.

  • Asian-Americans are a group of persuadable swing voters, growing faster than any other group in America today.

  • Latinos, the fastest growing minority group in America, are even more underrepresented in Congress.

  • Yet only 24 percent of the 3,892 femicides the group identified in 2012 and 2013 were looked at by authorities.

  • Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.

  • Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.

  • By far the most important of the conjugate sulphates and representative of the group is potassium indoxyl sulphate.

  • Louis could not help seeing the lovely group, through the half-obscuring draperies of the open door.

  • Each little family group had had its say and exchanged its domestic gossip earlier in the evening.

  • Who has patience for the recapitulation of a string of names, when a group of faces may be placed simultaneously before him?