cultist

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Recent Examples of cultist None of this matters to the demo of Musk cultists, wide-eyed tourists and all-purpose trend chasers who are game for waiting three hours in line. Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2025 As Right Wing Watch documents, uber-Trump cultist and Q-Anon theorist Liz Crokin explains in one of her videos: Adrenochrome is a drug that the elites love. MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025 Players are ordinary people who are drawn into a secret world of secretive cultists, unknowable horrors and mind shattering revelations. Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 The Director warns Eve that this is a rogue group of lawless cultists and orders her not to pursue the matter. ArsTechnica, 10 June 2025 Photo by Marc Stephan/Shutterstock Blue and John Crow Mountains, Jamaica Coffee cultists associate this Caribbean island’s Blue Mountains with the source of rare, pricey beans. Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 9 June 2025 Musk was certainly behaving like a moonstruck cultist. Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 5 June 2025 There, Sith cultists had been working to keep Palpatine's vision for a New Empire alive by building an unstoppable armada. Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cultist
Noun
  • Russell played the steely zealot, and Rhys the warm one, full of doubts.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The son of an alcoholic named George and a religious zealot named Augusta, Gein was raised alongside his brother Henry in a disturbingly strict household.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And speaking of God, Heather has been teasing a spooky urban legend all episode about a Mormon fundamentalist who, rumor has it, disappeared into the valley to basically hunt good-time girls.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Cultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultist. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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