Synonyms for shi'ite
ˈʃi aɪt; ʃiˈi, ˈʃi ishi'ite

Princeton's WordNet

1. Shiite, Shi'ite, Shiite Muslim, Shi'ite Muslim, Shia Muslimnoun

   a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs

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1. Jamal Khashoggi:

   With Iran, it’s an issue of religion, of Shi’ite expansionism, but for Russia it’s about geopolitics and interests, so we can talk to the Russians.

2. Mustafa Alani:

   Actually, I think this is partly about Shi'ite terrorism, because nobody is putting any effort into fighting that.

3. Phillip Smyth:

   The Zeinabiyoun are a Pakistani Shi’ite outfit that’s run by the IRGC, they’ve put together their own imagery, their own recruitment type material. They really became more of a marketable element toward the end of the summer of 2015. That’s when they became more of a centered group.

4. Foad Izadi:

   In the Assembly of Experts the principalists( hardliners) lost seats. That part is more complicated because the people sitting there are theologians, jurists not necessarily politicians, but they do have a lot of power, in the Shi’ite theology the leader is not infallible.

5. Mustafa Alani:

   Abadi is caught between two fires: the Sunni hardliners and the Shi'ite hardliners.