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Recent Examples of cultist
Players are ordinary people who are drawn into a secret world of secretive cultists, unknowable horrors and mind shattering revelations.
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Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Musk was certainly behaving like a moonstruck cultist.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
Like when Jesse makes the perfectly reasonable decision not to mount a doomed attempt to save a cultist when they're outnumbered by WLF members.
—ArsTechnica, 27 May 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
Though they’re not credited as such, each character in the script was based on an actual member of the Manson family, and the film’s research department provided copious reference material to the real cultists.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 May 2025
But the cultists, who are from the game, evoke some of the sillier and more pretentious elements of The Walking Dead, and the point about the danger the Wolves present could have been made without that interlude.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
Across that time, the actions undertaken by the player are largely the same: carefully navigating a hostile environment in order to find enough supplies to dispatch or slip past a small army of infected, cultists, or militia members.
—Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Demons move in waves over cliffs slick with rain, cultists chanting in perfect circles, pentagrams glowing beneath their feet.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Musk was certainly behaving like a moonstruck cultist.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
Like when Jesse makes the perfectly reasonable decision not to mount a doomed attempt to save a cultist when they're outnumbered by WLF members.
—ArsTechnica, 27 May 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
Though they’re not credited as such, each character in the script was based on an actual member of the Manson family, and the film’s research department provided copious reference material to the real cultists.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 May 2025
But the cultists, who are from the game, evoke some of the sillier and more pretentious elements of The Walking Dead, and the point about the danger the Wolves present could have been made without that interlude.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
Across that time, the actions undertaken by the player are largely the same: carefully navigating a hostile environment in order to find enough supplies to dispatch or slip past a small army of infected, cultists, or militia members.
—Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Demons move in waves over cliffs slick with rain, cultists chanting in perfect circles, pentagrams glowing beneath their feet.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cultist
zealot
Noun
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The film directed by Kim A Snyder and executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker examines attempts by librarians in Florida and Texas and elsewhere to combat book banning efforts, while simultaneously facing unhinged attacks from right wing zealots accusing them of grooming children.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
21 June 2025
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Masterpiece Theater Matthew Fraser November 30, 2022 Climate activist attacks on works by van Gogh, Vermeer, and other art world titans are the latest in a tradition of destruction that hearkens to the early Christian zealots.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Cultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultist. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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