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

In 2014 the Times’s editors launched an editorial crusade for full legalization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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 crusade to create a chemically sterile, insect-free world seems to have engendered a fanatic zeal on the part of many specialists and most of the so-called control agencies.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

These are ventures — often one-person crusades — that celebrate fast food, Finnish folk art, Skid Row, skateboarding, vertebrate zoology and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

Combating mitigation has become one of the great crusades in commercial aviation in the past fifteen years.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

This is only one of dozens of ways in which Kennedy has crusaded against standards in science and health.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025

Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison Friday, Russia’s prison agency said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 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

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

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Roberts won a lead actress Oscar in 2001 for playing a crusading real-life legal clerk in “Erin Brockovich,” a role that perfectly combined her acting strengths and star wattage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

But the anti-drug crusading president thought that he, too, had been “treated very unfairly” and deserved a break.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 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

What the Bullmers and company should have known is not to bring a crusading journalist aboard a boat where so much skullduggery is on the itinerary, and so many spoilers in the cargo hold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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