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worshippers

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variants or worshipers

plural of worshipper

as in devotees

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For prog rock devotees, the personnel alone reads like a dream lineup.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 1 July 2026
Her death came seven months after devotees had marked Khadijah’s 90th birthday.

— Julie Carr Smyth, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

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As whole house fans and swamp coolers can suck additional pollutants inside, the department recommends using air purifiers or air conditioners as alternatives when possible.

— Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
Some disappointed fans lingered near the barricades and boundaries police had set up and were enforcing.

— Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC news, 4 July 2026

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Garrett says the new protocols acknowledge that academic institutions have the responsibility to take steps for the safety of their researchers and protect them from potentially dangerous interactions with conspiracy theorists and other reactionary zealots.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
March 13, 2026 For Gen Z neophytes and hardcore fans overseas (South Asian and Nigerian Mike zealots apparently have a lot to say on the matter), the idea of MJ/Prince ever being a rivalry is laughable.

— Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026

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Baric worked closely with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many adherents to the lab-leak theory posit as the source of the pandemic; one contingent thinks that Baric might have been the creator of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Many liberals had been disciplined to adopt methods that purported to strictly confine legal interpretation, only to discover that their most prominent adherents, whether covertly or unconsciously, had other plans.

— Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026

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For example, a group of minions might be pretending to fight a group of Vikings on a movie set, or enough alien spaceships to fill the entire screen appear and shoot their lasers at once.

— Parents, Parents, 1 July 2026
And minions have taken over Wendy’s frosty machines with a new banana flavor.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026

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