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Recent Examples of cultist
The film also features performances from Emma Chamberlain as traumatized former employee/cultist Pickle and Gabrielle Union as store manager Sharon, who’s been hired to keep the ladies in line after a tragedy recently struck the store.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2026
Virgie is pursued, in some of the play’s funniest moments, by a slithering cultist in shiny green gloves who purrs like a deadly kitty and moves like an Animaniac.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
These are artifacts for cultists, to be sure, but how big is the clique that has been waiting to hear all this unvaulted material?
—Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
Islamists battled for their own theocratic nation, and bands of Christian cultists—whom locals, naming them according to their most notorious act, called chop-chop—severed the heads of those deemed unholy in villages and towns across Mindanao.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Watch Krampus on Peacock The Lodge A happy holiday turns cold when two children are snowed in during Christmas at a remote winter cabin with their soon-to-be stepmother (Riley Keough), whose visions of her cultist past trigger terrifying behavior for the trio in this 2019 horror thriller.
—Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
Peeking through shattered windows and cracks in the walls, Katja witnesses cultists driving metal spikes into their flesh and hanging themselves from hooks like the Cenobites from Hellraiser in an attempt to drive away the allure of sleep with unadulterated pain.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
The PayPal cofounder then turns South Park into a surveillance state, commandeering all the students' data to compile a list of cultists.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Oct. 2025
Documentaries like The Vow and Escaping Twin Flames expose the cults among us, and fictional accounts like The Girls and The Last Housewife dive deep into the cultist’s psyche.
—Literary Hub, 20 May 2025
Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2026
Virgie is pursued, in some of the play’s funniest moments, by a slithering cultist in shiny green gloves who purrs like a deadly kitty and moves like an Animaniac.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
These are artifacts for cultists, to be sure, but how big is the clique that has been waiting to hear all this unvaulted material?
—Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
Islamists battled for their own theocratic nation, and bands of Christian cultists—whom locals, naming them according to their most notorious act, called chop-chop—severed the heads of those deemed unholy in villages and towns across Mindanao.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Watch Krampus on Peacock The Lodge A happy holiday turns cold when two children are snowed in during Christmas at a remote winter cabin with their soon-to-be stepmother (Riley Keough), whose visions of her cultist past trigger terrifying behavior for the trio in this 2019 horror thriller.
—Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
Peeking through shattered windows and cracks in the walls, Katja witnesses cultists driving metal spikes into their flesh and hanging themselves from hooks like the Cenobites from Hellraiser in an attempt to drive away the allure of sleep with unadulterated pain.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
The PayPal cofounder then turns South Park into a surveillance state, commandeering all the students' data to compile a list of cultists.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Oct. 2025
Documentaries like The Vow and Escaping Twin Flames expose the cults among us, and fictional accounts like The Girls and The Last Housewife dive deep into the cultist’s psyche.
—Literary Hub, 20 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cultist
Noun
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Clara Molot talks to the zealots who are holding the line.—
Clara Molot,
Vanity Fair,
17 Mar. 2026
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Co-founder Raymond Cogan was a fan from his first ride, but became a zealot about a year later after hearing another cyclist putting the popular bike club down.—
Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Becoming fundamentalist Katie, who asked that her last name not to be published for privacy concerns, was born in Texas, deep in the Bible Belt of the Southern United States.—
Rachel Clarke,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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Zig-zagging from a tactical fundamentalist in Amorim to the ultimate pragmatist in the former England boss makes a degree of sense for a club desperate to find stability and show progress.—
Peter South,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Cultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultist. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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