Synonyms for sect
sɛktsect

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1. sect, religious sect, religious ordernoun

   a subdivision of a larger religious group

   Synonyms:
   religious order, religious sect, faction

2. faction, sectnoun

   a dissenting clique

   Synonyms:
   cabal, religious order, religious sect, junto, faction, camarilla

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1. • Clique

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1. sectnoun

   Synonyms:
   denomination, school

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1. sectnoun

   Synonyms:
   school, party, denomination

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1. List of paraphrases for "sect":

   secc, sects, section, sec, cult, dry, art, chap, festival, etec

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1. Alyssa Farah:

   There's a certain sect of the Republican Party and those close to the former President, who never want to fall out of his good graces, where else are they going to go ? He's their lifeline.

2. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Man can be categorized into three levels on social strata: One who are Consciously Unconscious, second who are Unconsciously Conscious - while both are inter-dependent for their survival; the third by and large a rare breed, Consciously Conscious sect – who don’t ever relate to this world!”

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

4. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   When psychologically unfit form the majority in any sect, and yet proclaim to be the only fittest, will not only be a threat to the existence of the sane minority, but are surely catastrophic for the human race as a whole!”

5. Judea Pearl:

   For the thousands of Jewish students and faculty at UCLA, Cullors represents a bigoted sect of the BLM movement that criminalizes the core of our collective existence and calls for its destruction, inviting her as a keynote speaker without explicitly retracting or addressing that bigoted part of her ideology amounts to mainstreaming that bigotry and, by implication, expelling Jewish students and faculty from equal membership in the Bruins tent of ‘equity, diversity and inclusion.