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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Recent Examples of crusade
Curtis was a favorite of then-board chairman Kevin Crye, a hard-right supervisor who enlisted Lindell to support the county’s crusade against Dominion.
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Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
The litigation has drawn comparisons to the legal crusade that led to industry changes against Big Tobacco in the 1990s.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
During that time, there were five crusades resulting in the deaths of millions of Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
—Chloe Breyer, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026
His crusade against offshore wind farms has run into legal roadblocks, so the administration is reportedly offering $1 billion in taxpayer money to stop projects off New York and North Carolina.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
The litigation has drawn comparisons to the legal crusade that led to industry changes against Big Tobacco in the 1990s.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
During that time, there were five crusades resulting in the deaths of millions of Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
—Chloe Breyer, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026
His crusade against offshore wind farms has run into legal roadblocks, so the administration is reportedly offering $1 billion in taxpayer money to stop projects off New York and North Carolina.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crusade
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That said, where does the campaign go now, with voting in the state’s top-two primary beginning in a few weeks?—
Dan Walters,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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And Cherfilus-McCormick has been charged by federal prosecutors with improperly using millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funds in connection with her campaign.—
Caitlin Huey-Burns,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Trotsky’s arguments about revolution in one nation versus a revolution of the international proletariat, like the fine argumentative tracery of Paul’s Jewish Christians versus Greek ones, seemed vital to the movement at the time but weirdly trivial and abstract to those outside it.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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These sonobuoys typically work as part of a larger network, where multiple buoys are deployed over a wide area to create an underwater surveillance grid, allowing operators to triangulate and track submarine movements more accurately, as per reports.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Crusade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crusade. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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