as in adherent
one who follows the opinions or teachings of another
a highly influential economist whose acolytes can be found at many major universities
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Recent Examples of acolyte
There are still sycophants and acolytes, but no savvy producers to make his head-scratching moves appear to make sense.
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Laura Bassett, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2025
The Studio casts Perkins as Tyler, an acolyte of Maya's who's terminally online.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Space exploration is a human endeavor, and acolytes like Bossie seem to be helping Trump remake NASA in his own image.
—David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
At the same time, the whole conversation about the border has been weaponized by Trump and his acolytes to demagogue the idea of immigration in the first place.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
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Laura Bassett, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2025
The Studio casts Perkins as Tyler, an acolyte of Maya's who's terminally online.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Space exploration is a human endeavor, and acolytes like Bossie seem to be helping Trump remake NASA in his own image.
—David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
At the same time, the whole conversation about the border has been weaponized by Trump and his acolytes to demagogue the idea of immigration in the first place.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acolyte
Noun
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Its adherents numbered in the tens of thousands in 2018 and surged to millions by 2020.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
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She was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, and left Russia with many other adherents of Hasidism on the famous escape trains to Poland.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Gaudium et Spes, 22), finally appearing to his disciples after the resurrection with his glorious body.—
Daniel Burke,
NPR,
9 May 2025
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Friedman, a Frank Lloyd Wright disciple, was head of the UC Berkeley School of Architecture at the time the house was built.—
Pueng Vongs,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Emilie Kiser has more than three million followers on TikTok and one million followers on Instagram.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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The club has four million followers on Instagram — double that of Sunday’s fellow finalists, United — and over 800k followers on TikTok.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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“Acolyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acolyte. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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