camp follower

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Recent Examples of camp follower Suspicion quickly flared into insurgency, and when the British pulled out of Kabul in 1842 with a convoy of 16,000 troops and camp followers, only a single survivor (the assistant surgeon William Brydon) reached the border town of Jalalabad alive. Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011 The women in the sketch were part of a controversial group known as camp followers: wives, widows, runaways and others who marched with the Continental Army. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024 Republican politicians have been calling on Biden to curb inflation, but there isn’t much a president can really do except raise taxes, which of course the GOP and their Democratic camp follower Joe Manchin oppose. Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 July 2022 As an insurgent, Mr. Trump arrived in Washington without the camp followers of brand-name lobbyists and insiders who set up shop with each new administration. New York Times, 8 Dec. 2019 There’s the near-noirish play between dark and light captured by Tripe in an Indian temple or the Yvonne De Carlo expression (speaking of almost noirish) on the face of a camp follower in a Fenton Crimean War photograph. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018 Her mother, Sophie Delaborde, the daughter of a bird seller on the Rue de Rivoli, was a camp follower of the Napoleonic troops in Madrid. Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018 The trio of revisionist powers includes Russia, China and Iran, along with camp followers like Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and Syria. Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for camp follower
Noun
  • The minute-long footage starts by showing train locomotives on fire and then segues into a satellite image of an airport, as well as images of a plane on the tarmac which has flames billowing out of the undercarriage.
    Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
  • These satellite photos show how the Franklin fire threatened neighborhoods.
    Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Not so, for minions who might break the law doing Trump's dirty work.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The first 10 minutes of the game are called the Laning Phase, and you're expected to stay in your lane and begin taking out minions and collecting souls to help your team start leveling up.
    Omar L. Gallaga, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Throughout the 1970s, Butler ran a produce farm, where today many of his disciples work, Robin Marshall, a former SIF member, told Newsweek November 22.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • With Herro playing off the ball more frequently this season, and with Robinson a disciple of the Reggie Miller constant-movement school of shot location, Spoelstra sees a pair of keys with the potential to unlock the Miami Heat’s offense.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In 2015, members of the Islamic State (IS) destroyed parts of the ancient city, and shortly afterwards the area saw fighting between Kurdish and IS soldiers.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Still, for a long time, the main difficulty for soldiers who needed amputations was surviving long after the operation.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The tornado that destroys DG’s family farm is a mode of inter-dimensional transportation used by the evil witch’s henchmen.
    Emma Stefansky, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
  • As fits his elevated role, Páramo has henchmen to do his bidding, like Fulgor Sedano (Héctor Kotsifakis).
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Among the most glaring examples is Ninth Division Commander Gen. Roh Tae-gun (Park Jae-hoon, excellent), a weak-willed lackey seduced by power and greed who’s based on Roh Tae-woo, Chun’s successor as president in 1988.
    Richard Kuipers, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Americans, beware: Putin and his lackeys are not your friends.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Cisco Aguilar, Nevada Secretary of State Since winning his 2022 race by a narrow margin against a Trump-backing Big Lie adherent and QAnon sympathizer, Aguilar, a Democrat, has invested $30 million to modernize the state’s voting infrastructure.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • At its peak, Christianity in Japan boasted some 500,000 adherents, the majority of them clustered in Nagasaki.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger, under white powder and red eye shadow like Joker sycophants.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • But that progress will be harder to forge if Trump follows through on his vow to mass fire civil servants and replace them with sycophants.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

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“Camp follower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camp%20follower. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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