Words similar to cliques

Example sentences for: cliques

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Different groups, ranging from urbane students to cliques involved in drug smuggling and prostitution, pepper their language with English or English-based expressions.
Not everyone in America goes to a big public high school, but everyone goes to a high school governed by a hierarchy of popularity and cliques.
And while there are, of course, factions and cliques within economics--don't get me started--there is, in general, a surprising degree of agreement about what constitutes good work.
Besides the White Housers, the two other leading cliques are the Jocks and the Poms, who have a friendly rivalry about which group is more important.
The program thought it could do this by a) making us watch Pepsi-sponsored movies featuring anti-drug propaganda and shrewd product placement; b) reinforcing the most obnoxious cliques on campus by choosing all the "All Star" officers from a popular group of athletes and cheerleaders (on average, B and C students who drank, smoked, and skipped class); c) doing everything possible to conceal the fact that high school's purpose is education; and d) giving us the opportunity to buy as much "All Star" merchandise as our parents could afford.