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- noun Plural form of
offshoot .
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The Tea Party itself is a third party movement, spawning fractious offshoots from a tattered Republican Party collapsing on itself.
Charles D. Ellison: GOP Moderates Spearheading a Third Party Option Charles D. Ellison 2010
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The Tea Party itself is a third party movement, spawning fractious offshoots from a tattered Republican Party collapsing on itself.
Charles D. Ellison: GOP Moderates Spearheading a Third Party Option Charles D. Ellison 2010
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The Tea Party itself is a third party movement, spawning fractious offshoots from a tattered Republican Party collapsing on itself.
Charles D. Ellison: GOP Moderates Spearheading a Third Party Option Charles D. Ellison 2010
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The Tea Party itself is a third party movement, spawning fractious offshoots from a tattered Republican Party collapsing on itself.
Charles D. Ellison: GOP Moderates Spearheading a Third Party Option Charles D. Ellison 2010
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(Certain offshoots of it, certainly, but not mainstream Christianity.)
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The Tea Party itself is a third party movement, spawning fractious offshoots from a tattered Republican Party collapsing on itself.
Charles D. Ellison: GOP Moderates Spearheading a Third Party Option Charles D. Ellison 2010
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Though we cannot absolutely distinguish the linguistic identities of the very earliest groups late in the first millennium BCE, their settlements and material culture provide strong indicators that early Bantu-speaking offshoots from the Southern Nyanza Basin who produced a variety of EIA ceramics, farmed, and produced iron moved into the area just before the end of the last millennia BCE.
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Ur says it is still unclear whether these six settlements represented offshoots from the central site, or migrants coming from faraway places to settle.
Mesopotamian City Grew Regardless of Kingly Rule | Impact Lab 2007
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Both Eskimos and Indians are said to be offshoots from the Mongolian peoples of Eastern Asia; the northern Indians probably followed the Eskimos into America but this must have happened at least 2,000 years ago, so long ago that they retain no recollection of their early Asiatic home.
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The Ismailis are indeed "offshoots" of the Twelvers, because they followed Ismail, the son of the 6th imam, Jaafar al-Sadiq, rather than Musa al-Qazim, who is recognized by Twelvers as the 7th imam.
Sunday, April 30, 2006 As'ad 2006
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