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Recent Examples of camp follower
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.
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Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011
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
The trio of revisionist powers includes Russia, China and Iran, along with camp followers like Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and Syria.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011
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
The trio of revisionist powers includes Russia, China and Iran, along with camp followers like Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and Syria.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for camp follower
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During the Apollo missions, NRO spy satellites captured images of potential landing sites on the moon.Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
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The latter is critical since NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center knows the characteristics of a CME only when its particles strike the sensors of the DSCOVR and ACE satellites, which orbit Earth about a million miles out.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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Not so, for minions who might break the law doing Trump's dirty work.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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The first 10 minutes of the game are called the Laning Phase, and you're expected to stay in your lane and begin taking out minions and collecting souls to help your team start leveling up.Omar L. Gallaga, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
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This season will include events such as the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus is betrayed and arrested, as well as the Last Supper, which is the final meal that Jesus shares with his disciples.Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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New Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald is a disciple of both, having served as the defensive coordinator for John with the Ravens and Jim at Michigan.Dan Pompei, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
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Still, for a long time, the main difficulty for soldiers who needed amputations was surviving long after the operation.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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National Syrian Army soldiers celebrate after opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took control of the Hama city center and surrounding villages on Dec. 6, 2024, in Hama, Syria.Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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The tornado that destroys DG’s family farm is a mode of inter-dimensional transportation used by the evil witch’s henchmen.Emma Stefansky, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
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As fits his elevated role, Páramo has henchmen to do his bidding, like Fulgor Sedano (Héctor Kotsifakis).Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Americans, beware: Putin and his lackeys are not your friends.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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There’s fat chance of that when political lackeys and incompetent appointees are elevated to high positions.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2024
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Cisco Aguilar, Nevada Secretary of State Since winning his 2022 race by a narrow margin against a Trump-backing Big Lie adherent and QAnon sympathizer, Aguilar, a Democrat, has invested $30 million to modernize the state’s voting infrastructure.Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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At its peak, Christianity in Japan boasted some 500,000 adherents, the majority of them clustered in Nagasaki.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
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Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger, under white powder and red eye shadow like Joker sycophants.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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But that progress will be harder to forge if Trump follows through on his vow to mass fire civil servants and replace them with sycophants.Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Camp follower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camp%20follower. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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