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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.
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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
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
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Then there is the problem of protecting these interceptors, sensors, and communications satellites from enemy anti-satellite weapons – not to mention how to deal with decoys and other deception devices.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
6 Feb. 2025
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That could be vital to the safety of satellites orbiting our planet, which are vulnerable to solar storms and other sudden bursts of radiation from deep space.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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Musk’s minions were also granted access to the entire Treasury Department payment system and have proceeded to block payments to select federal contractors.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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The funeral procession that climaxes Emilia Pérez is the damnedest, craziest thing since Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic minions draped kente cloth stoles over their shoulders and kneeled to canonize George Floyd at the Capitol.—
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Jan. 2025
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Something so impossible happened that his disciples were completely changed and declared that this dead one was now alive again.—
Lynne Silva-Breen,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Pep Guardiola will lock horns with his old disciple Enzo Maresca on Saturday night, a rematch which will be fought in very different circumstances to last summer’s season opener.—
Oli Gamp,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Other officers train soldiers in tactical and planning skills.—
Jeff Truesdell,
People.com,
1 Feb. 2025
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The plane had 60 passengers and four crew members on board, and the helicopter was carrying three soldiers.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
1 Feb. 2025
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The bullet from Csonka’s henchman fractured Vo’s collarbone and hit a major vein, sending her into shock during surgery amid much blood loss.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
21 Jan. 2025
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Borisov, whose Russian henchman Igor grows close to Mikey Madison's titular character over the course or Baker's unpredictable odyssey, has been dominating awards season for his breakthrough performance.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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By building a social and political movement that gave him coercive power over the Republican Party, Trump systematically demolished many of the nation’s long-standing norms, ushering in a cohort of lackeys who will enable his most autocratic impulses.—
Eric Cortellessa,
TIME,
6 Nov. 2024
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The current cast is rounded out by Alison Brie, who will play another Skeletor lackey, Evil-Lyn, Idris Elba, who will play the noble Man-at-Arms, and Riverdale's Camila Mendes as Teela, Man-at-Arms's daughter and He-Man's right-hand woman.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
21 Dec. 2024
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Columbus was an adherent of the twelfth-century Italian monk Joachim of Fiore, whose chronological template of God’s plan for humankind progressed in three stages of spiritual development.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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As their world crumbled around them, many found hope in a dance ritual that adherents believed would ultimately spark an upheaval in which their enemies would be ousted and their once-free existence restored.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
29 Dec. 2024
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Those vibes were often dictated by the sycophants in Musk’s orbit.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Triangle of Sadness parodied the wealthy class and their out-of-touch behaviors; The Menu gorged on monstrous culinary world personalities and the sycophants who feed them; and most recently, Blink Twice confronted the protective bubbles shielding powerful men from accountability.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Camp follower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camp%20follower. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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