crusade
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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
Now, under mounting international pressure, authorities are on a crusade to rid the country of that reputation.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
The crusade to prevent skin-cancer deaths, Mr. Jacobsen argues, has fostered an absolutism about the risks of sunlight that permeates the media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
His uncompromising crusade brought him into direct confrontation with the Vatican.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
Ms. Sonia Das Johnson crusades for women's rights all over the planet?
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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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
It’s as if researchers studying the causes of lung cancer arbitrarily decided to exclude the biggest factor — smoking tobacco — and instead crusaded against a superficial low-level correlation like listening to country music.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
For much of his life he crusaded for an international criminal court, and for laws to end wars of aggression.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
In Miami, he crusaded for the arts, helping the city become an international cultural destination.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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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
The American Academy of Pediatrics began crusading against juice for kids.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
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
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
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
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