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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The most dedicated, unfailingly loyal faction of a group or organization.
- noun An intractable core or nucleus of a society, especially one that is stubbornly resistant to improvement or change.
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- noun the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement
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