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1898 J. F. M. Middleton & D. Tait Tribes without Rulers 209 Splinter-segments of a clan do not form cores of tribes.

1964 R. Braddon Year Angry Rabbit v. 43 The fourteen new splinter nations now beginning to flake off the edges of a ripely rich Soviet Russia.

1978 L. Heren Growing up on The Times ix. 293 Malcolm X formed a splinter movement, the organization of Afro-American unity.

1979 D. Sanders Queen sends for Mrs. Chadwick 82 Supposing..the two main parties are dead~locked... They would have to turn to whatever splinter party happened to be closest to their own line.