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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Appeals for support of a new revolutionary movement, therefore, gained relatively few adherents.
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Both have their adherents, among writers and among readers.
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Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
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For Suzuki adherents, music is an inclination innate in all of us.
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He was beheaded by them, and replaced by an adherent of the Lords Ordainers.
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Nor could we expect the adherents of each approach to treat any anomaly as a reason for rejecting it.
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The doctrine convinced its adherents that natural selection worked.
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This phrase is a clue, becoming a means whereby adherents of the same movement can be identified.