crusader
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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
Moody had made his name as an anticorruption crusader during his tenure as the state’s attorney general: Borger’s cartoonish governmental lawlessness struck him as both a political liability and a moral affront.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Royal had read of the man’s exploits in the newspaper—lawyer, abolitionist crusader, bane of slavers and those who did their dirty work.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
“God wills it” was a battle cry of Christian crusaders during the Middle Ages.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
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
Defence spokesman Maj Gen Edward Buba has warned that the country’s military will intervene to prevent any violence at the protests, while police chief Kayode Egbetokun blamed "self-appointed crusaders and influencers" as being behind them.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2024
He told Robin, too, of far countries: the Holy Land where crusaders had fought for the tomb of our Lord, and of Greece and Rome, whose ancient languages were the beginnings of many other tongues.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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