camp follower

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Recent Examples of camp follower Suspicion quickly flared into insurgency, and when the British pulled out of Kabul in 1842 with a convoy of 16,000 troops and camp followers, only a single survivor (the assistant surgeon William Brydon) reached the border town of Jalalabad alive. Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011 The women in the sketch were part of a controversial group known as camp followers: wives, widows, runaways and others who marched with the Continental Army. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024 Republican politicians have been calling on Biden to curb inflation, but there isn’t much a president can really do except raise taxes, which of course the GOP and their Democratic camp follower Joe Manchin oppose. Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 July 2022 As an insurgent, Mr. Trump arrived in Washington without the camp followers of brand-name lobbyists and insiders who set up shop with each new administration. New York Times, 8 Dec. 2019 There’s the near-noirish play between dark and light captured by Tripe in an Indian temple or the Yvonne De Carlo expression (speaking of almost noirish) on the face of a camp follower in a Fenton Crimean War photograph. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018 Her mother, Sophie Delaborde, the daughter of a bird seller on the Rue de Rivoli, was a camp follower of the Napoleonic troops in Madrid. Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018 The trio of revisionist powers includes Russia, China and Iran, along with camp followers like Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and Syria. Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
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Noun
  • Built to haul small satellites to orbit, the rocket stands 82 feet (25 meters) tall and has an unusual design for a modern launcher, with three stages, each powered by hybrid engines burning a proprietary solid fuel mixed with a liquid oxidizer.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
  • In the meantime, SpaceX isn’t alone in trying to pitch its satellite services as a backup to GPS.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Besides being massively ignorant, Musk and his minions are drunk on ideology.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • Through their minions in the media, in Big Pharma, and woke teachers manipulating their children's minds, these elites hold an iron grip on society.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Gaudium et Spes, 22), finally appearing to his disciples after the resurrection with his glorious body.
    Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • 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
  • Pantoliano’s character, Angelo, was a soldier in the infantry, stationed in Hawaii in 1941.
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 19 May 2025
  • Named by Variety as one of 10 Spanish directors to watch in 2022, Azorín delivers a dual-timeline narrative set in Roman baths, where a 21st-century boy shares a hot bath with a 1st-century Roman soldier, both reflecting on their own frailty.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Before the mole can get much info from her mark, however, top Harrigan henchman Paul (Emmett J. Scanlan) arrives.
    EW.com, EW.com, 11 May 2025
  • In a parked car, erotic dancer Ani (Mikey Madison) straddles Igor (Yura Borisov), the Russian henchman who’s been her undesired shadow for a couple of very long, very stressful days.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Shawn reluctantly agrees, but is humiliated when Cory starts acting corny around his friend Gambling Dan (Phil Buckman), and his lackey, Louie (Weiss).
    EW.com, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • While Israel and its lackeys in Washington, D.C. blame Hamas for the breakdown, the opposite is true.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Its adherents numbered in the tens of thousands in 2018 and surged to millions by 2020.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
  • 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
  • The administration may be populated with sycophants and true believers, but Justice Department attorneys and Homeland Security officials are not stupid.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
  • There are still sycophants and acolytes, but no savvy producers to make his head-scratching moves appear to make sense.
    Laura Bassett, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Camp follower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camp%20follower. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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