faithfuls

noun

plural of faithful
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as in cadres

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as in loyalists

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  1. cadres
  2. loyalists
  3. communities
  4. soldiers
  5. folds
  6. missionaries
  7. cooperatives
  8. adherents
Noun
  • But his focus has expanded to cracking down on underperforming cadres too.
    — KANIS LEUNG, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Unsurprisingly, Chinese researchers have predicted that the main urban pension fund covering some 500 million urban workers, retirees, and cadres will be exhausted by the mid-2030s.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of cadres
Noun
  • The first Prancing Horse without a combustion engine was always going to be an affront to the most hard-core faction of the brand’s many loyalists, but disappointment with the important model surpassed even them.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Don’t tell that to the MAGA loyalists gathered in Dalton for his rally.
    — AJC.com, AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of loyalists
Noun
  • Their demands would likely include a government decision and a plan to combat crime in Arab communities, as well as a new socioeconomic development plan for the Arab sector involving budget allocations.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Bowles said the messages generated approximately 60 incident reports, numerous emails and expressions of alarm from student organizations representing Black, Jewish and other minority communities.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of communities
Noun
  • The discovery raises the possibility of a grim outcome in the search for the four men, which has led to El Salvador deploying 450 special forces soldiers to Haiti as of Friday to aid the gang-fighting force in the search.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2026
  • In May 2024, The War Zone examined Chinese state television video showing soldiers taking cover from first-person-view (FPV) drones, using a net-catching projectile, and demonstrating a handheld jammer.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of soldiers
Noun
  • The fabric folds inward, sinks toward the earth and spreads across the grass.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Hodges reprises Orazio’s chiaroscuro — the interplay of light and shade — in the sculptural folds of the drapery to equally foreboding effect.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of folds
Noun
  • Elsewhere near Ensenada, Mexican soldiers used helicopters to rescue 32 people, including 13 minors, from Rancho Genesis, a camp for orphans staffed by missionaries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • William Catto brought his family north to Baltimore with plans to eventually travel to Liberia as missionaries.
    — Timothy Welbeck, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of missionaries
Noun
  • The old joke is that some cooperatives are the least cooperative groups in the world.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
Definition of cooperatives
Noun
  • But experts and adherents alike warn that this idea fails to reckon with how different traditions and worldviews can often contradict one another.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Since the administration kicked off its anti-AI doomerism social media campaign, taking particular aim at EA and its adherents’ belief that AI carries a high risk of ending humanity—anti-AI sentiment seems to have grown.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of adherents
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