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crusade

[kroo-sayd] / kruˈseɪd /


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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

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

Instead of a moral crusade, the movement became an almost purely legal crusade.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

Ms. Sonia Das Johnson crusades for women's rights all over the planet?

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

This is only one of dozens of ways in which Kennedy has crusaded against standards in science and health.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025

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

In addition to convicting Nazi war criminals, he crusaded for an international criminal court.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 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

She is involved in a bus accident that results in a fatality and, with the crusading passion that so many people felt after 9/11, decides to get involved as a witness and truth-teller.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

She could keep trusting Mom and Dad, and keep being my whining, chess-playing, crusading Charlemagne.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia


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