crusader

Steinem became known not as a crusader for women but as a former bunny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

On the bright side, it looks like Cunningham might not have the fortitude for the life of a crusader.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

A writer, activist, organizer, prodigious intellect and a lifelong crusader for racial equality, Du Bois might have deemed his own life a failure, especially if he’d lived another 60 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

In 1836, William Lloyd Garrison, the antislavery crusader, sat for a cranial exam with the brothers Lorenzo and Orson Fowler, but opted to conceal his identity from the pair of phrenologists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Ordinarily he was a regular kid, minding his own business with no tinge of the crusader or fanatic about him.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Mr. Okrent has an eye for the era’s characters, from relentless temperance crusaders to slick bootleggers and local citizens who regarded the complicated legal regime of prohibition as a novel business opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Antidebt crusaders, like the personal-finance radio host Dave Ramsey, have been speaking for years about how paying thousands of dollars in interest can seriously impede a family’s ability to make progress on their other goals.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

The film mourns all such political crusaders whose names we never knew, although it wears its commentary lightly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

CBS’ crime-time detectives and Dick Wolf’s crusaders are constructed from the bones of Doyle’s eternally durable creation, but so are medical mysteries.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

Finally, the door swung closed 011 the last of the crusaders for Moorish dignity.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole