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crusade

[kroo-sayd] / kruˈseɪd /


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Lee’s crusade has animated a fiery debate in the dog-training world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn described the push to keep the fight in Britain as a "two-man crusade".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

Meanwhile, clergymen, college presidents, and other self-appointed spokesmen for communal standards of morality seized upon the Burr-Hamilton encounter to launch a crusade against dueling throughout most of the northern states.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham’s newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

His team said several Moscow churches refused to hold the funeral for the man who crusaded against official corruption and organized massive protests.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 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

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

After World War I, the Catholic Church crusaded worldwide for moral renewal.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 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

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

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


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