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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
crusade .
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Examples
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Xenophon, who has long crusaded to reduce Australians' use of poker machines, sees palm oil labelling primarily as a consumer issue, saying: Australians consume 10 kilos of palm oil every year and don't know it.
Palm oil labelling in Australia could become a reality if bill passes 2011
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He seemed to agree to work with the organization he previously crusaded against a bit too easily, but he may have been doing so with ulterior motives.
12 « May « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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She crusaded for women's suffrage, property rights and equal education and wages.
Beverly Wettenstein: How to Make "Equal Pay" for Women a Sexy, Election News Story and Debate Question? Beverly Wettenstein 2010
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C. Everett Koop, the U.S. Surgeon General at the time, crusaded against smokeless tobacco and sparred with Mr. Bantle.
U.S. Tobacco's Chief Made Dipping Hip Stephen Miller 2010
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She crusaded for women's suffrage, property rights and equal education and wages.
Beverly Wettenstein: How to Make "Equal Pay" for Women a Sexy, Election News Story and Debate Question? Beverly Wettenstein 2010
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He seemed to agree to work with the organization he previously crusaded against a bit too easily, but he may have been doing so with ulterior motives.
Sci Fi TV Briefs – Lost Goes a Bit too Far with Time Travel; Dollhouse Wraps Up 2009
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In 2003, as a state assemblywoman, she crusaded against Proposition 54, which would bar government from collecting racial data.
The New Chinese Exclusion Act Charles C. Johnson 2011
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If the Western imperial church hadn't burned heretics and crusaded against Christians who objected to the Crusades, we'd have a lot more who aren't obsessed with the crucifixion.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: The Ideological Roots Of Christian Terrorism Rita Nakashima Brock 2011
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One was East Harlem's Rep. Vito Marcantonio, a Depression-era communist in all but party card, who crusaded for the poor of all colors.
The Mecca of Black America Edward Kosner 2011
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She crusaded for women's suffrage, property rights and equal education and wages.
Beverly Wettenstein: How to Make "Equal Pay" for Women a Sexy, Election News Story and Debate Question? Beverly Wettenstein 2010
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