followers

plural of follower

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Recent Examples of followers By the end of the season, Unrivaled’s main accounts across six platforms reached nearly 400,000 followers, while its clubs added another 334,000 combined. Roberta F. Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 By then Kirk had amassed millions of followers across social media, and The Charlie Kirk Show became one of the most popular political podcasts in the country. Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Sep. 2025 The club have more than six million followers across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube, up 43 per cent since 2023. Matt Slater, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025 After Lula was elected, in October, 2022, Bolsonaro’s followers gathered outside Army barracks, urging the military to intervene. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025 Then again, the Gen Z content creator does have more than 130,000 Instagram followers, and more than (hold your hats) 740,000 followers on TikTok currently. Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025 Strangers turned to followers and views into food orders. Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025 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 Djerf Avenue sells blazers, button-downs, pajamas, and even bedding at relatively affordable price points (a cardigan goes for $115), aiming to be accessible to Djerf’s young followers. Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for followers
Noun
  • 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
  • To adherents, Nakamoto is considered a hero who empowered individuals to take back control of money.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Top off fall fits with cozy scarves—think last year’s iconic Acne Studio scarf (and its many imitators) that is still going strong.
    Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The LLMs behind generative agents and chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are certainly expert imitators.
    Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Over 20 years, Belichick disciples became prone to treating players as disposable assets instead of human beings they are supposed to both employ and empower.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The list of actors playing Jesus and his disciples includes Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Andrea Martin and Dave Thomas, plus musical director Paul Shaffer, all of whom would go on to have renowned careers on stage and screen.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Quintosapore innovative farming project may be nestled in the verdant and peaceful Umbrian hills, but echoes of Hollywood and Cinecittà are not too distant.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • For many people, Stewart included, conjure’s echoes ring loudest in the kitchen.
    Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Followers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/followers. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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