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
  • The image from an Airbus Defense and Space Pléiades Neo satellite shows a truck loaded with 18 blue containers going into a tunnel at the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center on June 9, 2025.
    Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Airlines have been looking at low-orbiting satellite constellations for faster in-flight Wi-Fi with fewer disruptions.
    Joey Roulette, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • There are shooting options connected with Universal’s app, where selections include firing off steel spheres, fireballs and, as minions would have it, bananas.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Watch for Kara's intense ocular heat ray blasts and some fancy flying while she and Lobo battle Krem and his minions off-Earth.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with his disciples, marking the institution of Holy Communion and the washing of feet, symbolizing humility and service, according to the Presbyterian Church.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Last Supper with his disciples.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Military police are often the only armed personnel on base, outside of shooting ranges, hunting areas or in training, where soldiers can wield their service weapons without ammunition.
    CBS News, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The village’s Black residents, including Hettie, are energized by a promising but tangled effort to redress a long-standing injustice—the unequal compensation received by Black South African soldiers in the Second World War.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That is, until Krypto is poisoned by the henchmen of villain Krem of the Yellow Hills, with only three days to save him.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Researchers argued that career anxiety under autocracy creates both pro-regime henchmen and anti-regime plotters.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Leftism thus constitutes an ongoing search for new causes to fight on behalf of, in a way that mobilizes adherents and creates solidarity among them.
    Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Both romantic trends have adherents who spin their retreat from status quo romance as a kind of liberation from modern expectations, and who position their marital arrangement as the logical extension of a deeper political project.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • To start the new Mideast war, Donnie acted on his own with no resistance from his sycophants, who have no backbones.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Republican sycophants currently in office, out of fear, won’t stand up to him.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026

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“Camp follower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camp%20follower. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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