How to Use disunion in a Sentence

disunion

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  • But that union was fragile, and the threat of disunion was constant.
    — Gordon S. Wood, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • The fall of Rome had costs, and American disunion might have its own price.
    — Fred Bauer, National Review, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Yet hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Yet hear me clearly: Disagreement must not lead to disunion.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • If the convention is called, the disunion that has become a faith in some conservative quarters will run amok.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Over the next three years, the country descended into disunion, followed by civil war.
    — David W. Blight Max-O-Matic, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Were threats of disunion from South Carolina and Georgia credible?
    — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • For Adams to undermine that settlement risked disunion.
    — Timothy Sandefur, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The pollsters went looking for common ground, only to find it in the 41 percent of Biden voters and 51 percent of Trump voters favoring some form of secession and disunion.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 9 Oct. 2021
  • There’s really nothing to be said for disunion at any point in American history.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Johnson’s government now says this arrangement is tearing the kingdom apart, creating disunion and strife.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Already, a sense that the government cannot safeguard ordinary people’s interests is feeding the country’s disunion.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
  • And without national feeling — and a desire to convince one’s countrymen — discussion, far from venting conflicts, is bound to bring opposing groups to the brink of catastrophic disunion.
    — Alexis Carré, National Review, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Despite clear signs of disunion within the Conservative camp, their embarrassment was allayed courtesy of Jeremy Corbyn who, as usual, amicably failed to put up a fight.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 16 Mar. 2017
  • In an emergency such as the secession crisis, the four-month interval between the election and inauguration of a new president had delayed a decisive response to disunion.
    — Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2020
  • But our physical theories remain riddled with disunions, holes and inconsistencies.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Aug. 2015
  • Disunion was an opportunity to regain sovereignty, prosperity and security.
    — David Goldfield, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017

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