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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for camp follower
Noun
  • For example, operators in four Texas counties flared about 70% of the volume of gas that their permits allowed, according to a recent effort to compare the state’s flaring data to information collected via satellite.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Kevin Carter | Getty Images JetBlue Airways plans to install Amazon's Project Kuiper on some of its airplanes to bolster in-flight Wi-Fi, the companies announced Thursday, in a vote of confidence for the nascent internet satellite service.
    Annie Palmer,Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Vex can use that energy to empower herself, or channel it to conjure deadly minions that fight alongside her.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Later in the season, Ellie — now trying to hunt down Abby to deliver the same fate to her — brutally kills Nora, one of Abby's minions.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As Robinson, a Sean McVay disciple, was brought in to modernize Atlanta's scheme.
    Cecil Merkerson III, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • As possessed people speak in foreign tongues and violence rises, Ahmed fears regaining memory, while the disciple fears his master’s decline may unleash an ancient evil.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • To maintain tanks’ relevance, Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have covered them in different configurations of armor as ad hoc solutions to rapidly shifting tactics.
    Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed soldiers had been sent to the area, per the BBC.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The citizens of Venezuela don't deserve to live under the tyrannical rule of Maduro or any of his henchmen!
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But things just continue to go wrong for both the brains of the operation (Al Pacino) and his henchman (John Cazale).
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Its purpose is to maximize the president’s control over our lives, enrich his family, reward his lackeys and punish his critics.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities and end elections.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trump and his hogmen are co-opting actual Nazi lingo from the gutter of the internet, speaking in references only Fox News viewers and Q-Anon adherents can parse, and rehabilitating the r-word as some sort of edgy pose that the rest of us learned was cruel in middle school.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • After the Great Black Migration in the 1920s, our city was one of the centers of the Ku Klux Klan’s revival as the strongest populist movement of the decade, claiming 5 million adherents, with 50,000 in Chicago alone.
    Jackson Potter, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This has become a notable concern about how AI as a sycophant is potentially impacting society at large, which could have alarming mental health consequences on a population-level basis further down the road (see my analysis at the link here).
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • He’s surrounded mostly by true believers and sycophants and able to engage somewhat freely in various forms of government dismantling and corruption.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025

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“Camp follower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camp%20follower. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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