crusader

On the bright side, it looks like Cunningham might not have the fortitude for the life of a crusader.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

And he brought in an antitrust crusader in Lina Khan to chair the city’s Economic Development Corp., the government body that the real estate community closely relies on to execute large-scale development projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

Jane Fonda, the renowned actor and political crusader, has made air quality a target of her protests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 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

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

A former member of the Minnesota National Guard, he has a tattoo on his bicep reading “Deus Vult”, a latin phrase meaning “God wills it”, a rallying cry for Christian crusaders in the Middle Ages.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2024

You have Megan and Lois as the crusaders and the heads of their department who are hunting these killers.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024

Sutues of saints, and of crusaders on their biers, or those pretending to be crusaders; effigies of all kinds.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood