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an adherent surface
1 a person who strongly supports a particular person, principle, or set of ideas: --
2 someone who strongly supports an idea, plan, person, etc.: --
As a result of the polarized nature of the debate, adherents of processual and postprocessual archaeology have tended to gravitate towards rather extreme positions.
Core divisive issues revolve around fundamental assumptions of each statistical philosophy, even though adherents of both have long agreed on some issues.
Their adherents reacted with new modes of conflict resolution.
How does a movement discipline the youthful ' lumpens ' who are most likely to be its first adherents ?
Over the next two decades, the needed resources became available as conservatives founded intellectual institutions and gained additional adherents.
Refutation is unnecessary; the premise collapses under the weight of its excessively numerous and various adherents.
Like other myths, it comforts only so long as its adherents believe it to be true.
Partisans of whole language tend to draw their support from functional linguists, whereas adherents of phonics get it from formalists.