Thesaurus results for AUDIENCES

audience

noun

ˈȯ-dē-ən(t)s

as in following

a group of people showing intense devotion to a cause, person, or work (as a film) that mystery novelist, although long deceased, continues to have an enthusiastic audience

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Recent Examples of audience While the film has an incredibly moving scene of depicting Midge’s slight unravelling as Alzheimer’s begins to take hold of her, the audience is left looking at it from afar, rather than being inside her mind. —

Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 13 May 2026 The audience has been receiving it with a surprising amount of laughter. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 May 2026 Eastman should give up his own purely partisan and dishonest defense, which only the most gullible or inattentive audience would swallow anyway. — Sheri Cohen, Esq. —

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026 Both shows have evolved toward those influential audiences, hosts said. —

Ben Smith, semafor.com, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for audience

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While challenges to Putin’s rule are still few and far between, the discontent in Russian society — from online personalities with large social media followings to normally robotic-like supporters in the Russian political system — is beginning to bubble up.

— Daniel DePetris, Twin Cities, 15 May 2026
Isaac Rangaswami, a former tech-company copywriter, first grew a following around an Instagram account called @caffs_not_cafes, which highlighted historic, low-key, unheralded London canteens.

— Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 14 May 2026