crusade

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

"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

“Hitler’s crusade in the East,” as Mr. Hargreaves calls it, cost Germany dearly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

In the end, Manzo’s crusade would cost him his life — and force Quiroz to make a painful decision: abandon her husband’s fight, or embrace it as her own.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

The Chicago Tribune made fare reductions a crusade and openly attacked the railroads.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

The institution has a lot of baggage, as any organization with nearly two millennia and a few crusades under its cincture is bound to have.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025

Instead of a powder puff, there was a chamois leather bag with powdered chalk in it, scented with attar of roses from the crusades.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2023

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

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

“We are very different,” says Mackey of her crusading governor, on a video call from London, where she is currently in production on Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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