as in militant
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
a crusader for improved safety in coal mines
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Recent Examples of crusader
His supporters depict him as a crusader for FBI reform who wants to tamp down prosecutorial misconduct and surveillance abuse.
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Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
Even the crusaders took precautionary measures to balance both bodily and spiritual health before and during their journeys.
—Megan Cassidy-Welch, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
Hellboy himself is an anti-Nazi crusader in a world largely inspired by the fiction of the notoriously racist genius of weird fiction, H.P. Lovecraft.
—Sam Thielman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
At times, Fok appears like a crusader who wants to question the system that leaves victims like poor innocent Man in its wake.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
Even the crusaders took precautionary measures to balance both bodily and spiritual health before and during their journeys.
—Megan Cassidy-Welch, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
Hellboy himself is an anti-Nazi crusader in a world largely inspired by the fiction of the notoriously racist genius of weird fiction, H.P. Lovecraft.
—Sam Thielman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
At times, Fok appears like a crusader who wants to question the system that leaves victims like poor innocent Man in its wake.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crusader
Noun
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These partisans, of course, will oppose commutation – but Polis still should grant it.—
Mike Davis,
The Denver Post,
19 Mar. 2025
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While partisans have made up their minds about Trump, independents may be taking a wait-and-see attitude.—
Susan Page,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Since the 1980s, activists fighting for immigration and refugee justice have continued to turn to sanctuary practices, both sacred and secular, as a method to protect members of their communities.—
Made by History,
TIME,
18 Mar. 2025
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Like those activists, he is accused of leading protests with which the government disagrees.—
David Cole,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2025
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Outside of a handful of terminally online zealots who do more harm than good to their side, nobody is invested in today’s presidential side quests.—
Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
11 Mar. 2025
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The Hold, its halls bereft of the zealots, liars, and dung-eating murderers who haunt it in Elden Ring, feels empty and perfunctory.—
Josh Broadwell,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2025
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The draft lawsuit is the work of the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation, a low-profile nonprofit that has drawn support from balanced budget advocates and the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council.—
Phoebe Petrovic,
ProPublica,
17 Mar. 2025
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In the 1980s and 1990s, tobacco taxes actually declined in real terms, even as congressional advocates repeatedly pushed for increases, according to Brandt.—
Simar Bajaj / Made by History,
TIME,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Crusader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crusader. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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