cultish
Britishadjective
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However, Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel,” a cultish detour, was a surprise revelation.“That had a deep impact on me,” Tiernan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
By then, his company had already developed a cultish following.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
You’d think a show that follows the transition from soccer champions to cultish cannibals would want to start us off with pure, innocent girls to emphasize the severity of their journey.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025
Last season, trapped inside Lumon's brutalist architecture and sanitised walls, crunching mysterious numbers for the "Macrodata Refinement team", the team was fed cultish Soviet-esque propaganda about company founder Kier Eagan and his family.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
Heather Schwedel spent a week parading her Stanley cup around New York City to see if she could gain insight into its cultish following—and it did not go as planned.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2024
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