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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.
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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
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
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On November 4, 1995, an Israeli far-right zealot fatally shot the prime minister at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.—
Dennis Ross,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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Then there are the Muslims depicted as religious zealots.—
Deena ElGenaidi,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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 10 Dec. 2025.
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