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

Now, under mounting international pressure, authorities are on a crusade to rid the country of that reputation.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

“Hitler’s crusade in the East,” as Mr. Hargreaves calls it, cost Germany dearly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

The writers have paralleled Homelander’s “slow descent into madness” with Butcher’s escalating anti-Supe crusade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

They deliberately sought young kids who were slipping through the cracks and had been written off as their personal crusade.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

I was up in my room at college, studying about Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless for my history exam on the crusades the coming Monday, when the hall phone rang.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

The Sarkisyans have crusaded to have the Pilot Life ruling overturned and to spare others their daughter’s fate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

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

In Miami, he crusaded for the arts, helping the city become an international cultural destination.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

Paul Morantz, a California lawyer who crusaded against brainwashing self-help gurus, crooked psychotherapists and menacing cults, including one that nearly killed him with a rattlesnake, died Oct.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

A serious survey of the Israel-Palestinian conflict would be highly beneficial to everyone, but it would have to examine arguments made by both sides—that’s the difference between real academic instruction and political crusading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 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

Veytia, who honed the public persona of a crusading, pistol-packing prosecutor, brazenly traveled between Mexico and the United States, confident that no one would see beyond his righteous, tough-on-crime facade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

She could keep trusting Mom and Dad, and keep being my whining, chess-playing, crusading Charlemagne.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia