adherent
Example Sentences
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About 30% of Americans consider themselves adherents to its ideas, or are sympathetic to them, according to a different survey by PRRI.
From Los Angeles Times
Islamic leaders have a pastoral responsibility to protect their adherents from corruption and radicalization, to keep the wolves from the flock.
The philosophic movements that emerged soon after Diogenes’ time, Stoicism and Epicureanism, aimed to help adherents overcome the fear of death.
Some adherents advise parents that the disturbing effects indicate that the treatment is working, ridding the body of impurities, or that the parents should alter the dosage.
From Salon
Abdulmohsen -- a critic of Islam and an adherent of far-right views and radical conspiracy theories -- faces life in prison if convicted.
From Barron's
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