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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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Strong cloud growth and improving e-commerce profitability are going to be key if the Street is to give Amazon a pass on the costs associated with its Kuiper satellite broadband endeavor.Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
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During one talk, Putin asked Musk not to activate his Starlink satellite system over Taiwan as a favor for Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose ties to Putin have grown closer, the Journal reported.David Klepper and Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
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The MacGuffin that causes Knull’s generic, interstellar cockroach minions to hunt down Venom/Brock on Earth is a lifeforce-slash-tracking-device known as the Codex.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
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In recent years, one of the farm’s employees, Juan Ramirez, has crafted giant minions out of hay bales that are visible from the freeway.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
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The girls were brought to the office, where they were reprimanded by another administrator who compared their behavior to that of Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ, leading to his death by crucifixion.Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 17 Oct. 2024
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The pastel pinks and greens on the disciples’ robes mark a departure from the depressing browns of art that came before him.Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 11 Oct. 2024
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Moving from a senatorial debate to a literal battlefield, the phrase's contemporary usage is linked to Communist leader Vladimir Lenin’s description of Russian soldiers deserting the Tsar's army.Phil Kirschner, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Takei, who was 5-years-old, stood in the driveway with his younger brother and watched one of the soldiers escort his mother out of the house.Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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Neeson’s lonely old violent henchman drinks cheap booze on the rocks around the clock.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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And Igor [Yura Borisov] is their Russian henchman working for the Armenians who work for that Russian family.Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
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The first principle of Chavismo, the movement created by Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, is that Chavistas are locked in a permanent struggle with the imperialist United States and its lackeys in the Venezuelan oligarchy.Ivan Briscoe, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2019
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Long dismissed as a lackey or a laughingstock (thanks to his looks and his limp), the former driver turned factory manager spots an opportunity where others only see catastrophe.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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Today, adherents still flock to see speakers like Bernstein and Abraham-Hicks on stage and buy their bestselling books, much like 19th-century followers converged in places like Lily Dale, NY, to see the popular spirit mediums of their day.Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made by History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
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The cryptocurrency’s adherents in turn assert that no amount of lurid interest can justify the violation of Satoshi’s preference to be left to his own devices.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
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But Trump has been less interested in ideology and more attracted to a politics of personal grievance, one that rewards sycophants and punishes critics.Brent Lang, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
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Other influencers, such as the Trump sycophant Laura Loomer, have urged their followers to disrupt the disaster agency’s efforts to help hurricane victims.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Camp follower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camp%20follower. Accessed 6 Nov. 2024.
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