crusades

plural of crusade
as in campaigns
a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal a grassroots crusade for spending more money on our public schools

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Recent Examples of crusades After one of the crusades, an abbot had brought back a handful of soil, supposedly from Golgotha, and strewn it on the abbey grounds. — Kristin Idaszak, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2026 Ackman has become more ideological, expanding his crusades into cultural and academic realms. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026 During that time, there were five crusades resulting in the deaths of millions of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. — Chloe Breyer, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026 Jackson led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad, advocating for the poor and underrepresented on issues, including voting rights, job opportunities, education and health care. — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Feb. 2026 The question the First Amendment keeps asking, across wars and panics and moral crusades, is whether a democracy can tolerate the possibility of persuasion. — Stephanie A, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2026 Wyatt advised political figures, sat on business boards, helped lead professional associations and made cultural preservation one of his ongoing crusades. — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 21 Jan. 2026 An administration whose Millennial vice president converted to Catholicism just six years ago is pushing explicitly theological policy crusades. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2025 Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism. — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crusades
Noun
  • Democratic gains in six state governments could revive an effort to shift presidential campaigns away from battleground states and toward winning the national popular vote.
    — Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The Democratic governors-elect in all three made Medicaid expansion a part of their campaigns.
    — Amanda Erickson, STAT, 10 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • In the original cartoons, produced and directed by the Fleischer Brothers, Max and Dave, every cartoon makes broad, elastic, sweeping movements, often to peppy jazz scores.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The robot does the physical work while a person controls its movements from a safer location.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026

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“Crusades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crusades. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.

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