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loyalist

[loi-uh-list] / ˈlɔɪ ə lɪst /
NOUN
supporter
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Osvaldo De La Garza, who lives in the Tampa, Fla., area, is a loyalist of Coronita, a smaller version of the Mexican lager Corona.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Our indispensable assistant Yueling, who remembers a World Cup betting pool at our old Shanghai bureau 20 years ago, is backing France—a Zidane loyalist to the end.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

"At this stage we have no evidence to say that the violence is being coordinated by loyalist paramilitaries," he said.

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist who heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was named by the Republican president on Tuesday as acting Director of National Intelligence.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

By April, the ANC and General Bantu Holomisa, the military leader of the Transkei and an ANC loyalist, had arranged for a visit.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The branding has worked wonders for the studio’s reputation, leading diehard loyalists to conflate the production-and-distribution company with the art it finances — resulting in capsule collections of merch flying off the digital shelves.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

US Ambassador Sergio Gor, who was previously in charge of staffing the second Trump administration with loyalists, launched the rickshaw campaign in April featuring "iconic American images".

From Barron's May 22, 2026

By the end, the dressing room had fractured into three camps: a small group of loyalists, a larger group who actively resented him, and a numb majority who had simply stopped caring.

From BBC May 13, 2026

As ever, the loyalists will go where the money talks.

From Slate Apr. 28, 2026

At nineteen he married a rich widow fourteen years his senior, but at the outbreak of revolution in the colonies he unwisely sided with the loyalists, for a time spying on their behalf.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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