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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
zealot
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For weeks, Oasis zealots have devoured online videos of the siblings strolling out onstage together, arms raised in victory and hugs brief yet genuine.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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That's just part of what Nikita Bridan says should be a compelling package, even for anti-EV zealots.—
Tim Stevens,
ArsTechnica,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Cultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultist. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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