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as in audience
a group of people showing intense devotion to a cause, person, or work (as a film)
long after it had gone off the air, the TV series continued to have a huge cult
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as in religion
a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities
an ancient cult that centered on the worship of the earth as the source of all life
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Recent Examples of cult
Mariclare Costello, a lifetime member of The Actors Studio who recurred as the schoolteacher Rosemary Hunter on The Waltons and played a hippie vampire in the cult horror film Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, died April 17 in Brooklyn, her family announced.
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Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
Add in Michael’s goth love interest, Star (Maria Wirries), and the musical strives to capture some of the cult appeal of the source musical, the plot of which David Hornsby and Chris Hoch’s book follows closely with one notable change.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
The residences were born out of necessity but have become cherished events for the thousands in the band’s cult.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
Dunker will instantly become a fan favorite with a cult following.
—Devon Henderson, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
Add in Michael’s goth love interest, Star (Maria Wirries), and the musical strives to capture some of the cult appeal of the source musical, the plot of which David Hornsby and Chris Hoch’s book follows closely with one notable change.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
The residences were born out of necessity but have become cherished events for the thousands in the band’s cult.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
Dunker will instantly become a fan favorite with a cult following.
—Devon Henderson, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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Noun
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In the process, however, one of the big distinguishing aspects of TV – the large audiences who once assembled to watch dramas, sitcoms and reality shows – has eroded.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2026
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Applause during a joint session is usually an awkward and partisan art; at the recent State of the Union, Vance and Johnson stood like professional opera clappers behind the President as Democrats in the audience shook their heads.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2026
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In 1970 the law was amended to extend immigration and citizenship rights to the children and grandchildren of Jews, as well as to their spouses, but the amendment excluded people who had been Jewish and voluntarily adopted another religion.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Apr. 2026
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Discussions about politics, religion or racial issues might have too much explosive intensity.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Cult.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cult. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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