loyalists

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The strategy allows him to install loyalists quickly while avoiding prolonged scrutiny of their qualifications.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

By the end, the dressing room had fractured into three camps: a small group of loyalists, a larger group who actively resented him, and a numb majority who had simply stopped caring.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

As ever, the loyalists will go where the money talks.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

Bidding to succeed his former mentor in 1995, Jospin shocked many Socialists by claiming a "right of inventory" over Mitterrand's legacy -- a right to reassess a record that loyalists deemed sacrosanct.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Northern abolitionists like Ralph Waldo Emerson made Brown a martyr, and Southern loyalists got up in arms, quite literally, at the idea that this might be the start of a trend.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson