as in adherents
one who follows the opinions or teachings of another
a highly influential anthropologist whose liege men can now be found in a score of major universities
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Aspiring early retirees of a more modest sort curb their ambitions considerably; the LeanFIRE subset, for example, counts adherents who are saving for subsistence, a nest egg that will cover just their basic necessities.—
Joshua Rivera,
Vanity Fair,
8 June 2026 -
Its adherents promote terrorism and sabotage to incite a race war and to bring about social collapse.—
Odette Yousef,
NPR,
27 May 2026
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Ronaldo has 665 million followers on Instagram, more than any other human, twice as many as Taylor Swift (273 million) or more than Swift and Beyonce (300 million) combined.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
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To fair success, from the looks of her 60k+ followers.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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Josh O’Connor and Emily Blunt are his overwhelmed disciples, imbued with discomfiting powers that could be key to making contact with these otherworldly guests.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
10 June 2026
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Much of the lost information was reconstructed by Gaudí’s disciples and collaborators, who had documented his ideas in books, articles, drawings and photographs.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
8 June 2026
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