as in adherents
one who follows the opinions or teachings of another
a circle of dedicated disciples who conscientiously wrote down everything the prophet said
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Recent Examples of disciples
But witnessing that scene Sunday night, even the most casual fan among a platoon of 50,000 disciples would grin at this once-implausible sight.
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
If The White Lotus season three was an object of worship, then my friends and I were loyal disciples, and anyone’s living room was our temple.
—Nikki Sternberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
Some of these are among Jang's top disciples.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh
naveed Jamali, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
According to prosecutors, Manson ordered his disciples to butcher some of LA’s rich and famous to trigger a race war.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Chapters led by Eli Stewart and other Savala disciples were churning out dozens of new ministers every year.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
These were composed somewhere far from Jerusalem, in a language that Jesus and his disciples would not have known, by writers who could not have been eyewitnesses.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
The Last Supper, as per the logline, is set in the days leading to betrayal, where a gathering of disciples unravels into a web of secrets and hidden motives.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
People who are disciples of Keith Richards.
—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2025
Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
If The White Lotus season three was an object of worship, then my friends and I were loyal disciples, and anyone’s living room was our temple.
—Nikki Sternberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
Some of these are among Jang's top disciples.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh
naveed Jamali, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
According to prosecutors, Manson ordered his disciples to butcher some of LA’s rich and famous to trigger a race war.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Chapters led by Eli Stewart and other Savala disciples were churning out dozens of new ministers every year.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
These were composed somewhere far from Jerusalem, in a language that Jesus and his disciples would not have known, by writers who could not have been eyewitnesses.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
The Last Supper, as per the logline, is set in the days leading to betrayal, where a gathering of disciples unravels into a web of secrets and hidden motives.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
People who are disciples of Keith Richards.
—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disciples
Noun
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Trump and his hogmen are co-opting actual Nazi lingo from the gutter of the internet, speaking in references only Fox News viewers and Q-Anon adherents can parse, and rehabilitating the r-word as some sort of edgy pose that the rest of us learned was cruel in middle school.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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After the Great Black Migration in the 1920s, our city was one of the centers of the Ku Klux Klan’s revival as the strongest populist movement of the decade, claiming 5 million adherents, with 50,000 in Chicago alone.—
Jackson Potter,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Strangers turned to followers and views into food orders.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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Tate has amassed more than 10 million followers on X and hundreds of thousands more on other platforms like Telegram and Truth Social.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The 9th-century monastery rises from the plateau—its stone walls etched with faded medieval frescoes of apostles and Last Judgement scenes.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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With Bono keeping his Cliffs of Dover yelp in check, Zooropa scales down U2's anthemic-apostles side.—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Disciples.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disciples. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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