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- noun Plural form of
coterie .
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Examples
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Prairie dogs live in small family groups, known as coteries, which they defend vigorously.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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To an extent, Biespiel's essay seems to me an effort to shame poets into entering public debates by comparing their retreat into insular "coteries" to the larger retreat of Americans generally, who are "self-sorting into homogeneous enclaves," becoming "a collection of increasingly specialized interests":
Saying Something 2010
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To an extent, Biespiel's essay seems to me an effort to shame poets into entering public debates by comparing their retreat into insular "coteries" to the larger retreat of Americans generally, who are "self-sorting into homogeneous enclaves," becoming "a collection of increasingly specialized interests":
May 2010 2010
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To an extent, Biespiel's essay seems to me an effort to shame poets into entering public debates by comparing their retreat into insular "coteries" to the larger retreat of Americans generally, who are "self-sorting into homogeneous enclaves," becoming "a collection of increasingly specialized interests":
Poetry 2010
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To an extent, Biespiel's essay seems to me an effort to shame poets into entering public debates by comparing their retreat into insular "coteries" to the larger retreat of Americans generally, who are "self-sorting into homogeneous enclaves," becoming "a collection of increasingly specialized interests":
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To an extent, Biespiel's essay seems to me an effort to shame poets into entering public debates by comparing their retreat into insular "coteries" to the larger retreat of Americans generally, who are "self-sorting into homogeneous enclaves," becoming "a collection of increasingly specialized interests":
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I wrote an article for SLJ a hundred years ago about "cult novels," books that may or may not have had a wide audience but still seemed to speak to the kind of coteries Monica and I were both part of.
Archive 2007-04-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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I wrote an article for SLJ a hundred years ago about "cult novels," books that may or may not have had a wide audience but still seemed to speak to the kind of coteries Monica and I were both part of.
Kurt Vonnegut Roger Sutton 2007
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Art is not, therefore, a thing for the "coteries" and the "cliques"; nor is it a thing for the exclusive leisure of any privileged class.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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The Tully Hall program will thus reflect Joachim as inspiration to one of Central Europe's most important musical coteries.
Inspired by Joseph Joachim Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012
ewener commented on the word coteries
I just saw it used to describe discrete groups of historians, each group trying to answer a similat historical problem in its own way. To my ear, rightly or wrongly, the word carries a kind of criminal aspect, like "cronies", so I was surprised to see it in this context, which is apparently non-condemning and even respectful. Unless of course these were Evil historians. I suppose there may be some of these out there, but most of them stop at merely Annoying.
August 3, 2009