coterie
a group of people who associate closely.
an exclusive group; clique.
a group of prairie dogs occupying a communal burrow.
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How to use coterie in a sentence
She often attracted a coterie of younger activists as she lectured around the country and conducted workshops on understanding racism.
Elizabeth Martínez, writer and activist for Chicano and feminist causes, dies at 95 | Matt Schudel | July 2, 2021 | Washington PostIn a few short years in the 1940s and into the 1950s, this coterie framed the rules and institutions that define American national security and the global international system to this day.
What America's Plutocrats Today Should Learn From Past Generations | Zachary Karabell | June 9, 2021 | TimeFascists rely on a tight coterie of corrupt loyalists to take over the government and impose control.
My Father Fled Fascism in Spain—and Taught Me How Lies Can Destroy a Democracy | Sebastian Junger | May 19, 2021 | TimeA thundering coterie of chirping prairie dogs darted chaotically around the grasslands.
Seeing Big Vistas at Theodore Roosevelt National Park | Emily Pennington | January 21, 2021 | Outside OnlineDiCarlo and Yamins, who now runs his own lab at Stanford University, are part of a coterie of neuroscientists using deep neural networks to make sense of the brain’s architecture.
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains | Anil Ananthaswamy | October 28, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
Yet as Emily Bazelon revealed in Slate, a coterie of right-wing organizations has indeed lined up to oppose contraception itself.
Do Corporations Believe in God? The ‘Hobby Lobby’ Case Has the Answer | Jay Michaelson | March 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere has long been a small coterie clamoring to pray there.
Barbra Streisand and Denzel Washington, along with a coterie of A-listers, have sent their toddlers there.
Quick-witted, sharp-tongued, and flirtatious, Anne drew a coterie of men to her, and each would lose his head for her.
Only Hagel's supposed anti-Semitism is a slander pushed almost exclusively by a small coterie of neoconservatives.
At that time Baudelaire's work was only known to a distinguished literary coterie.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierNovall Junior and his coterie appear here as in their former presentation in II, ii.
The Fatal Dowry | Philip MassingerTo the end, the coterie would act according to the light of their own eyes.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete | Gilbert ParkerThis abuse was attacked by an enterprising reformer, and of course defended by the coterie.
Decline of Science in England | Charles BabbageThey formed a coterie at Cambridge, and spent most of their holidays at Newstead.
My Recollections of Lord Byron | Teresa Guiccioli
British Dictionary definitions for coterie
/ (ˈkəʊtərɪ) /
a small exclusive group of friends or people with common interests; clique
Origin of coterie
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