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crusader

[kroo-seyd-er] / kruˈseɪd ər /


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A writer, activist, organizer, prodigious intellect and a lifelong crusader for racial equality, Du Bois might have deemed his own life a failure, especially if he’d lived another 60 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

In 1836, William Lloyd Garrison, the antislavery crusader, sat for a cranial exam with the brothers Lorenzo and Orson Fowler, but opted to conceal his identity from the pair of phrenologists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Kareen Hill, 27, of New York, is another microtrip crusader on social media.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Jane Fonda, the renowned actor and political crusader, has made air quality a target of her protests.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

What’s more, here was a way for Hoover, a deskbound functionary, to cast himself as a dashing figure—a crusader for the modern scientific age.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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