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Recent Examples of cultist
The Director warns Eve that this is a rogue group of lawless cultists and orders her not to pursue the matter.
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ArsTechnica, 10 June 2025
Photo by Marc Stephan/Shutterstock Blue and John Crow Mountains, Jamaica
Coffee cultists associate this Caribbean island’s Blue Mountains with the source of rare, pricey beans.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 9 June 2025
Players are ordinary people who are drawn into a secret world of secretive cultists, unknowable horrors and mind shattering revelations.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Musk was certainly behaving like a moonstruck cultist.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
Like when Jesse makes the perfectly reasonable decision not to mount a doomed attempt to save a cultist when they're outnumbered by WLF members.
—ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
There, Sith cultists had been working to keep Palpatine's vision for a New Empire alive by building an unstoppable armada.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025
Though they’re not credited as such, each character in the script was based on an actual member of the Manson family, and the film’s research department provided copious reference material to the real cultists.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 May 2025
But the cultists, who are from the game, evoke some of the sillier and more pretentious elements of The Walking Dead, and the point about the danger the Wolves present could have been made without that interlude.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
ArsTechnica, 10 June 2025
Photo by Marc Stephan/Shutterstock Blue and John Crow Mountains, Jamaica
Coffee cultists associate this Caribbean island’s Blue Mountains with the source of rare, pricey beans.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 9 June 2025
Players are ordinary people who are drawn into a secret world of secretive cultists, unknowable horrors and mind shattering revelations.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Musk was certainly behaving like a moonstruck cultist.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
Like when Jesse makes the perfectly reasonable decision not to mount a doomed attempt to save a cultist when they're outnumbered by WLF members.
—ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
There, Sith cultists had been working to keep Palpatine's vision for a New Empire alive by building an unstoppable armada.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025
Though they’re not credited as such, each character in the script was based on an actual member of the Manson family, and the film’s research department provided copious reference material to the real cultists.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 May 2025
But the cultists, who are from the game, evoke some of the sillier and more pretentious elements of The Walking Dead, and the point about the danger the Wolves present could have been made without that interlude.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cultist
zealot
Noun
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Crypto as Gospel, Alignment, and Exploitation Crypto has always attracted zealots.—
Chris Groshong,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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This is not a game; until the kooks and zealots rampaging over the public health infrastructure are constrained, many people could die.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
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“Cultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultist. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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