Synonyms for sunni
ˈsʊn i; ˈsʊn aɪtsun·ni

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1. Sunninoun

   Synonyms:
   Sunnite

Princeton's WordNet

1. Sunnite, Sunni, Sunni Muslimnoun

   a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad

2. Sunni, Sunni Islamnoun

   one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam

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1. • Muslim
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1. List of paraphrases for "sunni":

   sunnis, sunnite, sunita, year, al-sunna, sunnites, sunni-dominated, suny, sania, sunna

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1. Mitch McConnell:

   If I were one of our Sunni Arab allies watching this, I'd be encouraged that America was back in the business of being more assertive, less passive. That does not mean you are going to send in the troops every time there is a skirmish somewhere, but I thought it was very reassuring.

2. Strobe Talbott:

   Putin is not a good strategist. He is stirring up a hornet's nest of Sunni Muslims who will hold a grudge against him, he already had an internal problem with Islamist extremism and he now has an external problem since ISIS was responsible for the Sinai plane bombing.

3. Ryan Crocker:

   I cannot imagine anything more carefully calculated to permanently split this country apart, the country of Iraq apart, than a Shia-led military effort into a completely Sunni area.

4. Fawaz Gerges:

   Obama believes that reaching a nuclear deal with Iran could be his foreign policy legacy. The Americans are not looking at the deal with Iran in terms of its regional impact, the U.S. deal with Iran would deeply intensify a new cold war that has been unfolding between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Sunni Saudi Arabia allies on one hand and Iran. It would likely pour more gasoline on the raging fires in the Gulf Arab heartland.

5. Iraq Jan Kubis:

   (We should) enable the local tribes, to enable Sunni volunteers, to arm them to take care of their own security and to be a real strong part of this popular mobilization.