as in campaign
a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal
a grassroots crusade for spending more money on our public schools
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Their reluctance hasn’t stopped him from launching a crusade to raise the wreck.
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
What’s your take: Is Love Is Blind’s crusade against Mason taking things too far?
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 18 Feb. 2025
Disney does not seem to be on some sort of crusade to stamp out these images from the internet through copyright claims or other means.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Those who scowled at such modest steps in programming are presumably hailing the Trump regime’s ugly crusade against D.E.I., which has broadened into an assault on decades of civil-rights progress.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
What’s your take: Is Love Is Blind’s crusade against Mason taking things too far?
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 18 Feb. 2025
Disney does not seem to be on some sort of crusade to stamp out these images from the internet through copyright claims or other means.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Those who scowled at such modest steps in programming are presumably hailing the Trump regime’s ugly crusade against D.E.I., which has broadened into an assault on decades of civil-rights progress.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Crusade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crusade. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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