coterie

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The need for a patronised inner coterie: Iraq taught us that magnitude of destruction has to be immense.
需要維護圈內人士：伊拉尅讓我們了解破壞的程度必然是巨大的。
How humiliating: You tried to send a direct message to a member of your Twitter coterie but couldn't because they quit following your tweets.
多麽羞辱：你嘗試往你在推客中的小圈子發送一條直接信息但卻不能，因爲他們不再跟隨你的推客。
Lacking any coherent vision for the new Iraq, an often corrupt and incompetent coterie perpetuated many of the mistakes of Mr Bremer's CPA, compounding them with new ones of their own.
對新伊拉尅缺乏任何統一的看法，一個通常是腐敗和無能的小圈子延續了佈雷默的CPA的許多錯誤，將這些錯誤和他們自己的新錯誤混在一起。

So they didn't want one king to arise, and they didn't want a small coterie of leaders to arise.
所以他們不能讓一個國王崛起，不能讓一個小團躰壯大。
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In defecting to HP, she arrived alone, without the usual coterie of trusted assistants.
FORBES: All Carly, all the time
Such suggestions used to be hotly denied by the coterie surrounding Heidar Aliev, now 75.
ECONOMIST: Azerbaijan
Entirely new technologies are foundlings that come into the world unrecognised except by a fanatical coterie.
ECONOMIST: The millennium-bug muddle

a small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join them

A coterie of a particular kind is a small group of people who are close friends or have a common interest, and who do not want other people to join them.