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cultlike

(ˈkʌltˌlaɪk)
adj
resembling a cult
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Former members of congregations point to the cultlike power of many independent fundamental Baptist churches and the constant pressure to never question pastors or leave the church.
Melanie Sumrow's debut novel, The Prophet Calls, takes on powerful topics amid the taboo setting of an ultra-religious, cultlike community.
Khan enjoys a cultlike status in star-obsessed India and is one of Bollywood's biggest draws, despite a host of controversies.
Duterte enjoys a rock star status among Filipinos and has a cultlike following among those living overseas.
Even more than their predecessors, the new mainstream media are fuelled by an arms race for followers (and should we have been more concerned when "readers" and "viewers" were replaced by the more cultlike term "followers"?), reposts and response rate.
He discovers that Andrew was involved with a cultlike philosophical and Gnostic society, and was traveling with them throughout Europe and Russia.
The massive, cultlike following of the Star Wars franchise has entered the fitness and performance zone.
Zaman was the "dictator" of a cultlike group of misfits and the driving force behind a series of shocking attacks which prosecutors said belonged in the Dark Ages.
Some Iranian officials went as far as to blame the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK, Peoples Mujahideen of Iran), an exiled, cultlike opposition movement with a history of violence and terrorism in Iran.
So its main rival may well be down the hill in Leece Street - Nabzy's, which has a cultlike following among students.
The Terror Years draws on several articles Lawrence wrote while researching The Looming Tower, as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread.