Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.

American Educator

Michael Kors

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

American Designer

Mel Giedroyc

At Trinity College there was a coterie of the poshest of the posh, people you didn't ever see, they were so posh. They went to each other's rooms and, at weekends, each other's estates. I preferred to be with the weirdo bunch of raggle-taggle thesps.

English Entertainer

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

French Philosopher

Gary Weiss

The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.

American Journalist

Duncan Sheik

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

American Musician

William Hague

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

British Politician

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

American Poet

Ron Stallworth

How I conned the Grand Wizard, David Duke, and his coterie of followers... It has defined me in ways I never could have imagined.

American Public Servant

Coterie suggests a group that's exclusive or private, with members sharing strong common interests.

Exclusivity

Although it sounds formal, coterie is often used to describe informal social groups.

Informal Setting

The word coterie often has a positive connotation, implying a sense of camaraderie among the members.

Positive Vibe

When referring to a coterie in academic or professional contexts, it implies a shared expertise or focus.

Specialized Focus

Coteries in fields like science or art often collaborate on projects or ideas.

Collaboration

Joining a coterie can provide networking opportunities within the field.

Networking Value

 competition and regularly spawn those that change into males have the added bonus of fathering the offspring of a coterie of wives

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 group known as a coterie. In spring it's time for her to start a family.

Coterie

Exclusivity

Informal Setting

Positive Vibe

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