Word Finder - cliques

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A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

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This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.

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A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.

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The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.

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A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.

A big society exists in order to form cliques.

Cliques are groups of friends with common interests.

Adolescent cliques are a part of growing up.

Peer groups are usually cliques of friends who are about the same age.

They know which kids belong to particular cliques and who the loners are.

Within the cliques, talk about the opposite sex is popular as is making arrangements for out of school activities.

While members of the cliques are close friends, members of the crowd outside a clique are casual acquaintances.

Don't rely on worn-out cliques or oversimplify the grief that the person is feeling.

In the movie, four best friends lose their friendship to cliques but find one another again.

The assassins, two well-dressed young men, were very generally believed to have been at least voluntary agents of the reactionary and military cliques.

I am no longer creating new cliques or adding new images, so don't bother submitting anything.

Are you starting high school and concerned about high school cliques?

There are many other movies about adolescent cliques, as well as television shows and books.

In children ages eleven to fourteen, it is most common for members of these cliques to be of the same sex.

Children also generally belong to a crowd, which is a larger group of kids from several cliques.

School aged children are known to be competitive with one another, forming cliques with others who look and dress like themselves.

Touted as a modern Romeo and Juliet the movie sets up a high school couple not from two families but from two different cliques in school.

The movie deals with Ringwald's character, Andie, in a coming-of-age story where she faces pressure from high school cliques, and struggles to find her niche.

Some employees dread the annual office party and consider it a fruitless waste of time where some employees huddle together in cliques while others try to ingratiate themselves with the boss.

The real drama, however, is with the staff of the salon, with their cliques, competition, bickering and conflicts.

The growing contentiousness of their relationship which split the cast into "cliques" was one of the season's biggest story lines.

At the same time the bad memories of cliques, failed tests, or other trials of adolescence tend to fade in the rigors of adult life.

Interested cliques could control the business of the town-meeting in ordinary times, and boisterousness marred its democractic excellence in exciting times.

Are operations transparent, or do things seem to be run by cliques?

The rivalry between the bureaucratic cliques can become the opening for a much wider political struggle.

The struggle between the militarist cliques is destroying what remains of the unity of the country.

The existing legal pigeonholes make us insensitive to the many varieties of organized crime, criminal organizations, and networks of criminal cliques.

Citing cliques as a reason for a full reset is therefore wholly specious in my opinion.

The leading socialist and trade union cliques have their roots intertwined with those of the ruling stratum of the Third Republic.

Cliques are often part of the middle and high school experience.

While teens who join cliques may feel more powerful and included, it can hurt if they are on the outside looking in.

Why do some teens form cliques while others do not?

While cliques tend to be associated with junior high and high school students, they have been discovered within groups in elementary school.

Members of cliques are usually told with whom they can associate.

Cliques are also famous for ousting members and then allowing them back in, or for leading a teen into believing he or she is about to gain access into the group.

By focusing on family and encouraging your teens to participate in multiple activities involving an array of social groups, you can help insulate your teens fro the negative effects of cliques.

Many high school cliques are continuations of middle school.

Sometimes they can be good, but most cliques are just an inconvenience to teens in high school as well as a huge source of drama, especially with teenage girls.

Adolescent cliques that endorse illegal and unhealthy activities, however, are not good for teens to join, nor are they good for the parents of the teens who join them.

There are many different views about cliques in high school and among adolescents, some good and some not so good.

As with most things, there are good cliques and bad cliques.

Teens join cliques to feel accepted in the stressful world of high school, to find peers with similar interests, and to have someone to go do activities with inside and outside of school.

However, along with the good cliques there are adolescent cliques that are bad.

Movies, television shows, and books about high school usually feature cliques in varying degrees.

Since cliques in high school are a large part of being a teenager, filmmakers and authors like to create books and movies about them.

In contrast to cliques, crowds are not settings for adolescents' intimate interactions or friendships, but instead serve to locate the adolescent (to himself and to others) within the social structure of the school.