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• n  someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
• s  sticking fast

• The adherents of the cult made a beeline to have a glimpse of their leader.
• A prolific writer and autodidact who authored eight books and 70 magazine articles, Carnegie was a voluble, if sometimes naive, adherent of the Victorian faith in mankind's progress.
• Eichmann was born 54 years ago in the Ruhr, studied engineering in Austria, was an early Nazi adherent.

• disciple

News & Articles

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• Man Details Risks in Exposing China’s Forced Labor
  A Beijing resident and adherent of the banned Falun Gong movement said he slipped letters into product packages apparently meant for the West.
  June 11, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Samuel Alito in Media Matters for America
  In a 1985 job application for a position in the Reagan administration's Justice Department, Alito said, "I am and always have been a conservative and an adherent to the same philosophical views that I believe are central to this Administration."
• Frank Gaffney in FOXNews
  These things are beginning to percolate up as Shariah-adherent Muslims insist that their preferences and practices be accommodated by the rest of the population,said Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy - a...
• Robert Hedlund in Boston Globe (registration)
  I think people are becoming less adherent to our traffic laws,Hedlund said. "But the flip side of that is this just strikes me as maybe a little too much '1984'-ish."