CAMP FOLLOWER Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

camp follower

noun

Definition of camp follower

as in satellite

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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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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have destroyed several weapons-support warehouses, a satellite communications center, and a US forces building in a missile and drone attack on Bahrain’s Juffair military base today.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
In 2015, an international team led by ecologist Thomas Crowther developed the first global tree-density map by combining satellite observations with hundreds of thousands of field measurements collected from every continent except Antarctica.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026

Definition of satellite

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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
The minions have appeared in six films since — three Despicable Me movies and, making the jump from sidekicks to stars, three Minions movies.

— Taylor Swinton, Washington Post, 3 July 2026

Definition of minion

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The sculpture included Teddy mounted on a striding horse with two lackeys walking on either side.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
The problem is, Reigns still acts like a heel while Jey Uso, despite winning the Royal Rumble and becoming world champion, is back to being his lackey.

— Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 10 June 2026

Definition of lackey

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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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