adherent

Example Sentences

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The hard-right turn of the Republican Party, especially on social issues such as abortion, alienated many adherents of the West’s live-and-let-live ethos.

From Los Angeles Times

Rome has sheltered polytheistic pagans and monotheistic Jews, adherents of Middle Eastern cults, and, in more recent times, a sizable multinational Muslim community.

From New York Times

But to many of his adherents, such critiques from journalists and academics served as validation of their beliefs.

From Los Angeles Times

Loomer's account was restored after Musk's takeover as part of the flood of other white nationalist accounts, along with Holocaust deniers and QAnon adherents.

From Salon

Critics accused adherents of wasting their parents’ investment and abandoning the industriousness that helped build China into a superpower.

From New York Times