camp follower
Example Sentences
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While some wives were known as “camp followers,” performing basic domestic duties, Anna fought on the battlefield.
Among the advantages that billionaires receive due to their wealth is sedulous defenses by journalists and other camp followers.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead, Trump gave the party, along with its voters and camp follower permission to be their true, ugly, dangerous, anti-democratic, white supremacist selves.
From Salon
The other is of scavengers and camp followers that live off our garbage and feed on our corpses in the shadow of war.
From New York Times
Though often derisively dismissed as “camp followers,” they provided crucial support.
From Washington Post
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