CAMP FOLLOWERS Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

camp followers

noun

plural of camp follower

as in satellites

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Noun

SpaceX builds and operates spacecraft, as well as thousands of satellites deployed in support of its Starlink satellite internet service.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 June 2026
The rocket deployed operational satellites for China’s Qianfan megaconstellation, which is designed to rival SpaceX’s Starlink satellite Internet service.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 1 June 2026

Definition of satellites

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Back in his coaching career, Cruyff was one of the first managers to be obsessed with the cut of the pitch — a trait that has passed over to his disciples, most notably the exacting Pep Guardiola.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 25 June 2026
Christian Science teaches that the divine laws of Truth and Life, as demonstrated by Jesus and his disciples, continue to operate today as an eternal, demonstrable Science.

— Alistair Budd, Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2026

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Perhaps if this was any team other than the Yankees — where all of Hal Steinbrenner’s minions appear to have lifetime contracts — Aaron Boone’s status as manager would be coming under intense scrutiny about now.

— Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
In the chaos, the minions eat some spaghetti just like in Lady and the Tramp (1955).

— Barry Levitt, Time, 3 July 2026

Definition of minions

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And so does Jesse — particularly the latest installment, which sees the iconic henchmen find themselves as accidental stars in 1920s Hollywood.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
Now, Lilith must team up with Cinderella (Amanda Seyfried) to fight biker trolls, outrun evil henchmen, and escape the Screaming Woods on an epic quest to save the kingdom, but most importantly, their relationship.

— Rick Ellis, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

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Baric worked closely with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many adherents to the lab-leak theory posit as the source of the pandemic; one contingent thinks that Baric might have been the creator of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Many liberals had been disciplined to adopt methods that purported to strictly confine legal interpretation, only to discover that their most prominent adherents, whether covertly or unconsciously, had other plans.

— Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026

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The 1990s were a period of instability across the country, including in Goma, which saw periods of widespread looting that started with mutinous security forces and during which soldiers terrorized the population.

— Chinatsu Tsuji, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026
In his latest casualty update in February, Zelenskyy said Ukraine had lost at least 55,000 soldiers killed since 2022.

— David Brennan, ABC News, 14 July 2026

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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
Trump wants Americans to believe that his opponents are of this ilk, with his lackeys casting activists as domestic terrorists for merely showing up to protests.

— Gustavo Arellano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026

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