groveler

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for groveler
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The Greek auteur has worked with better scripts in the past, but in terms of its commanding performances, design, sharply precise cinematography, gleefully cruel humor, and bizarro ending, this madcap thriller can’t help but hit the spot for existing devotees.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Thomas’ grandfather — the late opera singer and jazz devotee John Anthony, who starred in the original Broadway production of Porgy & Bess — laid the family’s entire foundation.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This is the same lineup, full of younger and mostly unproven players, that has kept the Rangers on the fringe of the wild card spot, a point of irritation among fans.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • One of her biggest, most vocal fans, Ariana Grande, presented the pop legend with the honor.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These will hold a particular interest for the Bloomsbury enthusiast because the majority of them are previously unpublished (an impressive feat, given how often the various archives have been plundered by other biographers).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The conspiracy flavor enters when enthusiasts argue that establishment science or industry suppressed a cheap, clean power source.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Vex can use that energy to empower herself, or channel it to conjure deadly minions that fight alongside her.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Later in the season, Ellie — now trying to hunt down Abby to deliver the same fate to her — brutally kills Nora, one of Abby's minions.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Founding Fathers knew of the fate of the 3,000 idolaters who prayed at the golden calf while Moses conversed with God on Mount Sinai, and of the money-changers driven from the Temple by Jesus.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2024
  • Throngs of idolaters gather just to watch the team buses arrive.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The citizens of Venezuela don't deserve to live under the tyrannical rule of Maduro or any of his henchmen!
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But things just continue to go wrong for both the brains of the operation (Al Pacino) and his henchman (John Cazale).
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2025
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“Groveler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groveler. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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