religious sect
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Nash Athanasiou, the leader of a religious sect called the Very Good Friends, has summoned Hercule to investigate a near-fatal attack on one of his followers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
The Yoders were members of the Old Order Amish, a centuries-old religious sect that practiced adult baptism and shunned such modern accoutrements as cars and the electrical power grid.
From Slate • Jul. 1, 2025
Samet and Nuray hit it off, but he later suggests to his roommate Kenan that he should court her — after all, they’re both part of the minority religious sect the Alawites.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2024
In 2021, the VOV news agency said he was behind a "reactionary organisation disguised as a religious sect based in the Central Highlands, which aimed to incite local people to sabotage the united Vietnamese state".
From BBC • Aug. 19, 2023
He lived with a religious sect in Delhi until his death in 1998.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
