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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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It’s set in a small-town community in upstate New York, where the long-gray-haired and bearded Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) is the contempo version of a fire-and-brimstone cult leader, preaching fury in the form of piety.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
The Raising Hope actress also remarked on the cult status of The Goonies.
—Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
His particular brand of avant-garde, genre work is, at least from the outside, basically irresistible to anybody who loves cult cinema.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
After the creatures show up, we’re left running (stark naked) through the labyrinthine walls of Hell, as main protagonist Aiden, before being accosted by a deranged cult back in the real world.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
The Raising Hope actress also remarked on the cult status of The Goonies.
—Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
His particular brand of avant-garde, genre work is, at least from the outside, basically irresistible to anybody who loves cult cinema.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
After the creatures show up, we’re left running (stark naked) through the labyrinthine walls of Hell, as main protagonist Aiden, before being accosted by a deranged cult back in the real world.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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Noun
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Other streamers have found their own ways to account for expensive new sports rights, valuing games’ ability to bring in supplemental audiences who have proven likely to stick around.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Parker took that exchange as a sign that his research might have finally found a sympathetic audience.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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The canonization of two people who died young comes as religion has been declining among young people, including American Catholics.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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Before that, an indigenous population occupied the land with their own distinct languages, religions, and economies, many of which still exist today despite decades of brutal crackdowns from the Argentinian state.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Cult.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cult. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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