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

"This is a crusade," says Georgios Samaras, an assistant professor of public policy at King's College London who studies the European and US far right.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

That night, lying in bed, Roy felt a stronger connection to Mullet Fingers, and a better understanding of the boy’s private crusade against the pancake house.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

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

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

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

OK, so her fans didn’t wear wrist-to-elbow bead bracelets, and she didn’t exhort them to register to vote — although her husband crusaded ardently for giving women the vote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

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

O'Rourke has long crusaded against big money in politics, and he made a point of not accepting money political action committees in 2018.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

There’s Charles Foster Kane, an extremely rich, crusading newspaper owner who is chided by a friend for losing more than a million dollars a year.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026

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

Her conviction was eventually overturned thanks to the crusading efforts of lawyer Soledad Deza, a tale chronicled in Dolores Fonzi’s appropriately titled “Belén.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

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

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia