crusade
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We also inspired people like the journalist Nick Shirley, who has identified fraud in Minnesota and California, to continue the crusade against waste and abuse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Hearst used his newspaper empire to crusade against animal experimentation and cruelty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
He has continued this crusade, recently endorsing a $20 minimum wage and speaking out against the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Chicago Tribune made fare reductions a crusade and openly attacked the railroads.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado have sought Moretta’s counsel and helped parishioners in their various crusades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 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
But as “The Perfect Neighbor” crusades toward its inevitable end, the film’s empathy depletes.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
The first record of this unusual arrangement was when Virgil Butler had been contracted as servant, bodyguard, and cook to Lord Hugo de Fole for one of the first great Norman crusades.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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The Sarkisyans have crusaded to have the Pilot Life ruling overturned and to spare others their daughter’s fate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
It’s as if researchers studying the causes of lung cancer arbitrarily decided to exclude the biggest factor — smoking tobacco — and instead crusaded against a superficial low-level correlation like listening to country music.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 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
In Miami, he crusaded for the arts, helping the city become an international cultural destination.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 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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The American Academy of Pediatrics began crusading against juice for kids.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
It’s a story of crusading feminism, but it’s not overtly political.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
A serious survey of the Israel-Palestinian conflict would be highly beneficial to everyone, but it would have to examine arguments made by both sides—that’s the difference between real academic instruction and political crusading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
The items reportedly also include documents from the Teutonic Order -- a Catholic brotherhood of crusading knights active in the Middle Ages.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
Maybe, in a month or two more at Jerry’s, I might have regained my crusading spirit.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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