camp follower

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Recent Examples of camp follower The women in the sketch were part of a controversial group known as camp followers: wives, widows, runaways and others who marched with the Continental Army. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024 Republican politicians have been calling on Biden to curb inflation, but there isn’t much a president can really do except raise taxes, which of course the GOP and their Democratic camp follower Joe Manchin oppose. Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 July 2022 As an insurgent, Mr. Trump arrived in Washington without the camp followers of brand-name lobbyists and insiders who set up shop with each new administration. New York Times, 8 Dec. 2019 There’s the near-noirish play between dark and light captured by Tripe in an Indian temple or the Yvonne De Carlo expression (speaking of almost noirish) on the face of a camp follower in a Fenton Crimean War photograph. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018 Her mother, Sophie Delaborde, the daughter of a bird seller on the Rue de Rivoli, was a camp follower of the Napoleonic troops in Madrid. Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018 Suspicion quickly flared into insurgency, and when the British pulled out of Kabul in 1842 with a convoy of 16,000 troops and camp followers, only a single survivor (the assistant surgeon William Brydon) reached the border town of Jalalabad alive. Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011
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Noun
  • For example, the Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb satellite constellations both downlink via Ku-band frequencies, which are approximately 11 to 14 GHz.
    Margherita Bassi, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
  • Unlike SpaceX’s hangars full of reusable rockets, there’s no building with cameras, spectrometers, telescopes, and spacecraft buses—the core chassis of a satellite platform—lying around waiting to launch.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • Your president and his minions spread war, chaos, lies and economic instability.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Scott Quigley, a loyal minion of yet another septuagenarian Democrat hack DA, Marian Ryan of Middlesex County.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Christie deserves the target on her back due to horrific working conditions at her uppity stores, one managed by a lap dog of a Smith disciple (Will Poulter) who demands workers take the fastest lunch break on record.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • Xabi Alonso has been exposed to far too much elite football wisdom to be labelled a mere Guardiola disciple, but his style of play offers the path to a positive form of continuity while his status in the game commands far greater respect than any BlueCo hire since Mauricio Pochettino.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • The clinic was close to the partition, where Israeli soldiers often fired their weapons.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
  • During the hike, one of the soldiers fell into the ocean.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Major Roberto Carlos told the silent henchman to sit me down at the back of the building, where another agent came and took my phone and laptop with him down a long hall.
    Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • Jai Courtney will play Rob-Will, a ranch foreman and one of Beulah Jackson’s henchmen.
    Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • That means, of course, she’s now been phased out of her role as a factory lackey in dystopian near-future Brazil due to her age.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Trump wants Americans to believe that his opponents are of this ilk, with his lackeys casting activists as domestic terrorists for merely showing up to protests.
    Gustavo Arellano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Critics say event ‘hijacked’ by Christian nationalism Critics say Rededicate 250 is shaping up to promote Christian nationalism — whose adherents typically believe that the United States was founded as and should be a Christian nation.
    Peter Smith, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • Scientology is a religious group shrouded in privacy that has garnered attention for its celebrity adherents, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
    Joe Kottke, NBC news, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • Hypocritical Democrats and their sycophants in the media are rushing to evade blame for inciting political violence in the country including the latest assassination attempt of President Trump.
    Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Republicans in Congress have become spineless sycophants to a president who only sees the beauty of this country in dollar signs.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026

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“Camp follower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camp%20follower. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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