Branch
Split off
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Both terms in one sentence
- RCA Victor had a Japanese branch which split off from its parent company during World War II.
Source: Obligatory Corporate Initialism - Another episode has Ned Flanders say that his denomination of Christianity (The Northwest Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism) split off from the Catholic Church several centuries ago over the right of worshippers to come to church with wet hair.
Source: Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate -
Flanders explains that the bad blood between their religion (The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism) and Catholicism goes back to when the former split off from the Catholic Church over the right to attend services with wet hair... which they've since abolished.
Source: Silly Reason for War
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