as in followers
one who follows the opinions or teachings of another
the Flat Earth Society surely doesn't have many adherents
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Recent Examples of adherents
To symbolize this united centrist front, adherents of The Change fly American flags that have been reconfigured to place the field of stars smack in the middle of the stripes.
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Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
Academics cite Wallace’s story as one of the catalysts behind a fringe concept that has spread among adherents to the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement and is gaining traction at the highest levels of the federal government.
—Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Srinivasan’s Network State—and its core idea of capturing or creating parallel, anti-democratic institutions—was attracting adherents on the tech right.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Oaks thanked church adherents for their prayers as the selection process was conducted.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
For starters, antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, is an ideology whose adherents are not part of any unified organization.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
To watch Lipe-Smith’s Caroline cuddle in bed watching TV on her iPad, or bopping around to JoJo Siwa, or pensively finishing a Popsicle while sitting beside her grandmother at a museum, is to have the sheer malevolence of our current administration and its adherents thrown into sharp relief.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Yet adherents have long self-identified as Mormons, so the rebrand felt like a novelty to some members.
—Konden Smith Hansen, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
Certainly the idea that having a bunch of wealth will prevent you from getting into heaven has been conveniently ignored by many adherents.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
Academics cite Wallace’s story as one of the catalysts behind a fringe concept that has spread among adherents to the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement and is gaining traction at the highest levels of the federal government.
—Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Srinivasan’s Network State—and its core idea of capturing or creating parallel, anti-democratic institutions—was attracting adherents on the tech right.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Oaks thanked church adherents for their prayers as the selection process was conducted.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
For starters, antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, is an ideology whose adherents are not part of any unified organization.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
To watch Lipe-Smith’s Caroline cuddle in bed watching TV on her iPad, or bopping around to JoJo Siwa, or pensively finishing a Popsicle while sitting beside her grandmother at a museum, is to have the sheer malevolence of our current administration and its adherents thrown into sharp relief.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Yet adherents have long self-identified as Mormons, so the rebrand felt like a novelty to some members.
—Konden Smith Hansen, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
Certainly the idea that having a bunch of wealth will prevent you from getting into heaven has been conveniently ignored by many adherents.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adherents
Noun
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The account has already attracted over 63,000 followers, many of whom originally believed the cheerful residents were real.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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The President’s message, circulated among his 11 million followers and beyond, stood in direct defiance of a court order from last week.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Helping Vitello's case in San Francisco is the prominent presence of former Tennessee disciples on the organizational depth chart.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Bielsa lost both finals but gained admirers and disciples.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Beloved by liberal partisans and loathed by their counterparts, Pelosi was one of the last engineers of an old-school political machine that could count votes better than anyone in a generation.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Critics will predictably argue that those two positions are inherently linked; on the opposite side of the political spectrum, oil and gas partisans could point to Gates’ essay as proof that climate hysteria was misguided all along and that fossil use should continue unimpeded.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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