cultish
Britishadjective
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By then, his company had already developed a cultish following.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
“Severance” opens many passages into Lumon Industries’ cultish mythology, many of which begin with weird, sad stories.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025
The crowd for “Whiplash” is growing, and he’s also hoping to add the ill-received but cultish “Babylon” to the tour soon enough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 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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