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
  • Centers and satellites are still the idea; above him float several squares within circles, and as the geometric shapes get smaller and more central the figures within get more important—not mortals but minor deities, not minor deities but the big guy, Vajrabhairava.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The satellite images captured by the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat satellites have revealed vast solar installations reshaping the desert landscape, part of China's ambitious effort to build a renewable energy powerhouse.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Inflation Reduction Act set the United States on a new green industrial trajectory that even Trump and his minions will have trouble reversing.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • That should give Trump and his minions enough time to solve all the problems of his voters who are struggling.
    Letters to the editor, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • His disciples have kept the Ravens in contention nearly every year since.
    The Athletic, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But the book created a movement full of disciples — Chiengora Hand Spinners, a Facebook group, now has over 1,300 members — and made the idea accessible to the public.
    Rosalie R. Radomsky, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Now the soldiers and horses have been rehearsing for months, with bands playing and cannons firing, to prepare them for the pomp and circumstance of a president’s funeral, said Maj. Wes Strickland, a spokesman for the Old Guard.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In May, eight soldiers were sentenced to death, and in July, 25 soldiers were convicted of similar offences.
    Fox News, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Also joining the cast are Sam C. Wilson as Trap Jaw, Kojo Attah as Tri-Klops and Hafthor Bjornsson as Goat Man — three of Skeletor's henchmen.
    Lawrence Yee, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
  • That led Desmond and a few henchmen to the underground markets, unaware that Mikaela (with Keiran’s help) had rigged the place to blow.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 15 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The concerns of modern wellness adherents are no less valid than their 20th-century counterparts.
    Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Thomas Kuhn, in his groundbreaking book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, described a paradigm shift in science as a new understanding of nature that: Is a sufficiently unprecedented theory to attract an enduring group of adherents.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Dec. 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 11 Jan. 2025.

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