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How to pronounce clique in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack
Type of band, circle, lot, set
Has types cabal, camarilla, rogue's gallery, faction, galere, hard core, junta, junto, kitchen cabinet, loop, sect, maffia, mafia, military junta, bloomsbury group, bohemia, brain trust

Examples of clique

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I would not as they are the same clique that politicians are self selected from.
From the independent.co.uk
That's why I buy Alex trying to move up in her clique or crossover to a new one.
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
This turned out to be a reference to the clique charged with renovating the MBR.
From the economist.com
She felt like she was back in high school, trying to break into an elite clique.
From the couriermail.com.au
These three provinces became the bases of strength of the Zhili military clique.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The Black Eyed Peas brought the weird with a clique of futuristic robot dancers.
From the abcnews.go.com
This grew out of the tiny clique of self-professed illuminati that sustained it.
From the time.com
Total fraud but he is part of the LMA clique so he will escape proper scrutiny.
From the independent.co.uk
They want to give it to a clique of marauding armed Islamist AL-QAEDA fanatics.
From the dailymercury.com.au
More examples
  • An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
  • A clique (also United States) is an inclusive group of people who share interests, views, purposes, patterns of behavior, or ethnicity. A clique as a reference group can be either normative or comparative. ...
  • In the mathematical area of graph theory, a clique in an undirected graph is a subset of its vertices such that every two vertices in the subset are connected by an edge. ...
  • The Kliq (sometimes spelled as Clique) was a backstage group in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during the mid-1990s, which some claim held substantial booking power, were shown favortism by owner Vince McMahon and were accused of refusing to be fair to anyone outside of the group.
  • The Clique was a group of Victorian artists founded by Richard Dadd. Other members were Augustus Egg, Alfred Elmore, William Powell Frith, Henry Nelson O'Neil, John Phillip and Edward Matthew Ward.
  • The Clique was a band of musicians formed in England.
  • The Clique were formed in the late 1980s by Paul Newman, Jon-Paul Harper, Phillip Otto and Gilles B. Mery. This line-up played many high profile gigs centred around the revived UK Mod scene. ...
  • The Clique is a direct-to-DVD film based on the popular teen novel series by author Lisi Harrison. The film is a production of Warner Premiere with Tyra Banks as executive producer.Entertainment Tonight, Filming began in February 2008 in Rhode Island and ended in March 2008. ...
  • The Clique Series is an American young adult novel series written by Lisi Harrison and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around five girls. ...