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  • noun A small group.

Etymologies

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group +‎ -let

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Examples

  • Abol-Ghassem Salavati, judge of Tehran's 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court, speaking to defendants: "You are charged with moharebeh through conscious, deliberate, and effective support, contact, and cooperation with the terrorist grouplet MEK The Mujahedin-e Khalq."

    Ali Safavi: Iran's Uprising Prospects After February 11: Escalation or Decline? Ali Safavi 2010

  • As for the Jewish actors associated with the production (if that's what they are), whom phil mentions above, what is there to say except that while Mel Gibson was regarded with contempt by most of the Hollywood establishment and most of the US media for his anti-Jewish rants, these luvvies will be hailed in Britain as a courageous little grouplet ( 'good Jews').

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Countdown to complete mental breakdown by Micheletti and his dwindling core of supporters (and, yes, that includes a grouplet of US expats that have been blogging constant disinformation from Honduras - their self-delusion and dishonesty to all is now crashing on the rocks of reality, too).

    Tom Hayden: Zelaya Returns Through Bold Direct Action 2009

  • Defending his remarks in the National Post, Schwartz proudly proclaimed his Trotskyite heritage on National Review Online and even coined a term for this growing grouplet: Trotsky-cons!

    Think Progress » Murtha Attacked by the Right For Quote Falsely Attributed to Him 2006

  • Edward Young was a Reading Councillor and briefly leader of their grouplet.

    Archive 2007-05-13 2007

  • The reply to the second point would be to ask why, if Abu Musad was such a dangerous baddie, the Bush admin did not try to capture or kill Abu Musad et al, when they were just a small grouplet in Kurdish territory in NE Iraq, the which was within the “no-fly” zone regularly covered by U.S. and British fighter jets?

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Who’s Laughing Now 2006

  • What you're describing in fact as "the community" is *your little grouplet you feel is the community* where someone with a pre-existing RL connection or game connection to a friend/colleague in ACS ginned this thing up.

    State of Play Virtual Architecture 1.0: Contest Judges Say Enough with the Simulacra Already 2005

  • The Tory MEPs are to form their own quasi-autonomous grouplet, including Poles, Czechs and one Cypriot.

    Crisis averted Richard 2004

  • No individual can live apart, he must have a group or grouplet, no matter how small, whose ideas, customs and morals he shares.

    The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896

  • She further named three detained members of the terrorist Monafeqin grouplet - Jaafar K.,

    Welcome to Iran Focus 2010

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