crusade
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Vitamin C was filed away with other “alternative” remedies, and Pauling’s late-career crusade was widely seen as a sad mistake.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
NYClass still leads the carriage crusade, with Mr. Nislick listed as president on the organization’s website and tax documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Now, under mounting international pressure, authorities are on a crusade to rid the country of that reputation.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
In the end, Manzo’s crusade would cost him his life — and force Quiroz to make a painful decision: abandon her husband’s fight, or embrace it as her own.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Or reminding him that it won’t be so easy to persuade Dauntless and Candor to join the factionless in their crusade against the faction system.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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Its glacial flatness doesn’t lend itself to crusades, or to impressive scenes like a man on horseback silhouetted against the sunset.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
The campaign takes a page from other Rust Belt cities, including Detroit and South Bend, that have undertaken big blight elimination crusades, with varying degrees of success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
When Richard the Lionheart led crusades to the Middle East they were funded by crippling taxes at home.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
He is a traditionalist Roman Catholic who crusades for the traditional Latin Mass and enjoys discussing medieval philosopher-theologians and ancient texts.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025
Toward the end of the thirteenth century, the Catholic Church began what could be called a series of domestic crusades within Europe.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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This is only one of dozens of ways in which Kennedy has crusaded against standards in science and health.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025
A few years after legendary magician Harry Houdini crusaded against spiritualists and mediums, spook shows started popping up throughout North America and beyond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
He notes that the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr. crusaded against homosexuality during his 1908-1936 leadership of New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church — one of the most prominent Black churches in the country.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
For much of his life he crusaded for an international criminal court, and for laws to end wars of aggression.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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In this case, it was someone who became so utterly obsessed with an obscure idea that he spent the final years of his life crusading for it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
The American Academy of Pediatrics began crusading against juice for kids.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Roberts won a lead actress Oscar in 2001 for playing a crusading real-life legal clerk in “Erin Brockovich,” a role that perfectly combined her acting strengths and star wattage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
But the anti-drug crusading president thought that he, too, had been “treated very unfairly” and deserved a break.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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