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Recent Examples of fandom
The Thunder are Oklahoma’s only big-league option — the scarcity has taken a region divided by college allegiances and coalesced that fandom behind one franchise.
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Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 June 2025
The surreal experience has led Lee, who also co-founded the Tigers Supporter Group, one of nine subsections that comprise the official LAFC fan base across the city, to contemplate breaking a cardinal rule of sports fandom by straddling her allegiances and wearing both teams’ colors.
—Josh Gross, Oc Register, 15 June 2025
Over 23 years since the franchise moved to Uncasville, Sun fandom is beginning to span generations in Connecticut: A teenage boy played pickup on the new courts in a No. 42 Nykesha Sales jersey, though likely wasn’t old enough to remember most of Sales’ WNBA career from 1999-2007.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
The Cubs quickly seized on the report and put up a message on Wrigley Field’s famous marquee celebrating the pope’s reported fandom.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 12 June 2025
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Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 June 2025
The surreal experience has led Lee, who also co-founded the Tigers Supporter Group, one of nine subsections that comprise the official LAFC fan base across the city, to contemplate breaking a cardinal rule of sports fandom by straddling her allegiances and wearing both teams’ colors.
—Josh Gross, Oc Register, 15 June 2025
Over 23 years since the franchise moved to Uncasville, Sun fandom is beginning to span generations in Connecticut: A teenage boy played pickup on the new courts in a No. 42 Nykesha Sales jersey, though likely wasn’t old enough to remember most of Sales’ WNBA career from 1999-2007.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
The Cubs quickly seized on the report and put up a message on Wrigley Field’s famous marquee celebrating the pope’s reported fandom.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fandom
Noun
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Things change, and new audiences are there to be won.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Olivia Munson is an audience editor at USA TODAY and Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer for USA TODAY.—
Olivia Munson,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
Noun
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In the years following its initial cancellation, the series gained a cult following, and HBO picked it up for a second season, which premiered in 2014.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
27 June 2025
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Leto was photographed with his cult dressed in all white.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
26 June 2025
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“Fandom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fandom. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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