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Recent Examples of cultist
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.
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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
Across that time, the actions undertaken by the player are largely the same: carefully navigating a hostile environment in order to find enough supplies to dispatch or slip past a small army of infected, cultists, or militia members.
—Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Demons move in waves over cliffs slick with rain, cultists chanting in perfect circles, pentagrams glowing beneath their feet.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Dragon types, for example, get individual entries but all cultists are filed in the same entry.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
The ongoing Escape From Tarkov event is moving at a rapid pace after launching a few days ago, with cultists invading all maps with some serious loot in their pockets.
—Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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
Across that time, the actions undertaken by the player are largely the same: carefully navigating a hostile environment in order to find enough supplies to dispatch or slip past a small army of infected, cultists, or militia members.
—Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Demons move in waves over cliffs slick with rain, cultists chanting in perfect circles, pentagrams glowing beneath their feet.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Dragon types, for example, get individual entries but all cultists are filed in the same entry.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
The ongoing Escape From Tarkov event is moving at a rapid pace after launching a few days ago, with cultists invading all maps with some serious loot in their pockets.
—Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cultist
zealot
Noun
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The choice of platform was telling: Bartiromo is a Trump zealot, her show is a regular promoter of pro-Trump conspiracy theories and is widely trusted by the president’s base.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
19 May 2025
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Desert Modernism Architecture Tours Palm Springs proper is a fantastic destination for architecture zealots: Desert Modernism is the prevailing style, a minimalist pastiche of flat or butterfly roofs, open floor plans and a blissful blend of indoor and outdoor spaces.—
David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Cultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultist. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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