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noun

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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How to use splinter group in a sentence

The Sith created a splinter group, the Inquisitors, as a means to use corrupted Jedi as Imperial agents.
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Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
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Asian-Americans are a group of persuadable swing voters, growing faster than any other group in America today.
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Latinos, the fastest growing minority group in America, are even more underrepresented in Congress.
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Yet only 24 percent of the 3,892 femicides the group identified in 2012 and 2013 were looked at by authorities.
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Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
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Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.
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By far the most important of the conjugate sulphates and representative of the group is potassium indoxyl sulphate.
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Louis could not help seeing the lovely group, through the half-obscuring draperies of the open door.
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Each little family group had had its say and exchanged its domestic gossip earlier in the evening.
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Who has patience for the recapitulation of a string of names, when a group of faces may be placed simultaneously before him?
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British Dictionary definitions for splinter group

splinter group

noun

a number of members of an organization, political party, etc, who split from the main body and form an independent association, usually as the result of dissension

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splinter group

A part of an organization that breaks away from the main body, usually owing to disagreement. For example, Perot's supporters at first constituted a splinter group but soon formed a third political party. This idiom alludes to the noun splinter, a fragment of wood or some other material that is split or broken off. [Mid-1900s]

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