How to Use adherent in a Sentence

adherent

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  • The teams in this World Series have their share of adherents to such traditions.
    — James Wagner, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
  • That is why adherents sometimes wear Hawaiian shirts, say those who track them.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2020
  • But no matter the fanaticism of the adherents, there is a ceiling on converts willing to listen to 15-minute songs about the shadows of the moon.
    — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • As if hours of fasting weren’t enough to pique the appetite, many Ramadan adherents can look forward to the sweet taste of qatayef when the sun finally does set.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • For the next fifteen years, the United States and the United Kingdom became the leading adherents to the no-concessions framework.
    — Joel Simon, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2020
  • This is a 23% spike, just by altering the definition of who is an adherent.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • And sorry, your beef is a climate risk according to ESG adherent Rabobank.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Among adherents, March was set aside for children to die, April for women and May for men, according to accounts from survivors.
    — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • But adherents are quick to note that girl dinners are not about deprivation.
    — Jessica Roy, New York Times, 8 July 2023
  • Far more winning is Rick’s conversation with a child star (Julia Butters), an eight-year-old adherent of the Method.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
  • These days, practically the whole thing is a shrine to a one-term president, one that his adherents attend as pilgrims.
    — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • However, that might not be convincing enough for iOS adherents to jump over to Android.
    — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The collapse had been particularly swift in the priest’s own Brazil — the church’s strongest redoubt by measure of Catholic adherents.
    — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Of course, that doesn’t reduce its value to QAnon adherents, who view it as a potential gateway to their more radical ideas.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In a sense, Annie is an adherent of the Roland Barthes school of literary criticism: in her mind, the death of Misery is a tragedy, but the death of the author would be, at most, an inconvenience.
    — Kristen Roupenian, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Their close friendship signals that the ties that bind adherents of Judaism and Islam can remain strong, even as the war pitting people of their faiths against each other rages.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Named one of the top trending diets in 2018 by Google, Optavia has received an endorsement from a celebrity adherent, too.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 24 Nov. 2020
  • One suspect from the melees was Lindsey Moers, an alleged adherent of the anti-facist Antifa movement.
    — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • Today, the valley is the headquarters of a faith with 17 million adherents worldwide and a tableau of verdant lawns, fertile farmland and booming growth.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • The Houthis took more and more territory and gained adherents by claiming to stand against corruption and the unfair transition.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Pulgarin had his first cup after a kava bar opened behind his hair salon in 2013 and has been an adherent ever since.
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Prepping has gone mainstream, its adherents no longer fringe actors but quirky soothsayers of sorts.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Some adherents have adopted the notion that the 5G frequency spectrum somehow transmits and spreads the virus, as if in a wireless miasma.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The journalist David Dayen argued a similar case in 2018, for the New Republic; and since then, the idea has quietly been gaining adherents.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Named one of the top trending diets back in 2018 by analysts at Google, the Optavia program has gone on to receive an endorsement from a celebrity adherent, too.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The country has a long history of bloody confrontation between adherents of the two religions.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Now, Qanon adherents are employing the same tactics on the 2020 presidential race.
    — Elise Thomas, Wired, 17 Feb. 2020
  • These pundits are the opposite of adherents; all hail the Incoherents!
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • There is a long line of adherents to this vision, beginning in 1945 with Vannevar Bush and continuing through Ted Nelson, who coined the word hypermedia.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
  • And its adherents say de-influencing could have a positive effect on the environment.
    — Brianna Scott, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024

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