crusade

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

In 2014 the Times’s editors launched an editorial crusade for full legalization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Nation began her crusade at the age of fifty-three, when she loaded up a buggy with hammers and rocks and drove to Kiowa, Kansas, a town notorious for its wild behavior in its many saloons.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

Combating mitigation has become one of the great crusades in commercial aviation in the past fifteen years.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Hutchinson said residents have responded in force to his call for emergency sidewalks repairs, just as they did when he crusaded for a crackdown on widespread illegal dumping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

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

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025

Rep. Jolene Unsoeld, a champion of open government, crusaded for the initiative as a state legislator.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

Paul Morantz, a California lawyer who crusaded against brainwashing self-help gurus, crooked psychotherapists and menacing cults, including one that nearly killed him with a rattlesnake, died Oct.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022

He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

It’s a story of crusading feminism, but it’s not overtly political.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 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

Veytia, who honed the public persona of a crusading, pistol-packing prosecutor, brazenly traveled between Mexico and the United States, confident that no one would see beyond his righteous, tough-on-crime facade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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