loyalist
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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
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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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