camp follower

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Recent Examples of camp follower 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 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
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Noun
  • This month the bank added Viasat , a global communications provider of high-speed satellite broadband.
    Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • The Long March rocket family dates back to 1970, when China launched its first satellite into orbit using the Long March 1 vehicle derived from Chinese ballistic missiles.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • Aniello, who directed both bookend episodes, replicates her own long, dynamic shot from the series premiere, which tracks Deborah from the closing joke of her zillionth Vegas set, through a backstage warren of minions and admirers, to her dressing room.
    Judy Berman, Time, 29 May 2026
  • Your president and his minions spread war, chaos, lies and economic instability.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Ivan Juric failed, even as a Gasperini disciple, to provide continuity and struggled for credibility after his dismissals from Roma and Southampton last season.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Join this session with Nelson Ng, who has been teaching tai chi since 2014 after learning the art from Master Gene Chen, a disciple of Grandmaster Feng ZhiQiang.
    Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Last month, senior Moscow officials attended the inauguration of a war memorial complex in Pyongyang, where soldiers fighting for Russia were honored and a message from Putin was read aloud.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 5 June 2026
  • Four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire.
    Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Launched in early 1982, the original MOTU line-up saw He-Man and Skeletor joined by heroes Teela (at this point, the only female character), Man-at-Arms and Stratos; the morally ambiguous Zodac; and a couple of Skeletor's henchmen, Beast Man and Mer-Man.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 June 2026
  • The remoteness of their surroundings is no accident; one of these characters is fleeing an inconvenient past, which returns with a vengeance in the form of a beefy sadist (Benoît Magimel) and his two hostage-taking henchmen.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • After Wally springs her from the Shaw's clutches, the group manages to lure the couple and some of their lackeys into the makeshift particle accelerator trap that former engineer Sam built out of old cathode-ray tube TVs.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 21 May 2026
  • That means, of course, she’s now been phased out of her role as a factory lackey in dystopian near-future Brazil due to her age.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Its adherents promote terrorism and sabotage to incite a race war and to bring about social collapse.
    Odette Yousef, NPR, 27 May 2026
  • And most of today’s Esperanto adherents are neither naïve nor even particularly batty.
    Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • Trump’s worried sycophants probably know that the details of an eventual agreement likely do not matter very much at this point.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
  • Instead of holding events around Los Angeles to convince skeptics that his mayoral campaign is for everyone, the former reality television bad boy has bunkered himself inside an echo chamber of sycophants, friendly podcasters and milquetoast media outlets.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026

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“Camp follower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camp%20follower. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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