as in partisan
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
zealots on both sides of the issue resorted to name-calling and scare tactics
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Recent Examples of zealot
But among this more tolerant company, Aurangzeb is considered something of a dark horse – a religious zealot and complex character.
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Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
Call me a zealot for my newfound religion, but this format TikTok and its copycats are employing, this isn’t just a format for a particular kind of social app.
—Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
The show has turned new fans into believers and pre-existing fans into zealots.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2025
Other folks go the budget route, paying just $10 to $100 per month for rapamycin, an off-label immunosuppressant that’s recently become the darling of longevity zealots.
—Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2025
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Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
Call me a zealot for my newfound religion, but this format TikTok and its copycats are employing, this isn’t just a format for a particular kind of social app.
—Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
The show has turned new fans into believers and pre-existing fans into zealots.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2025
Other folks go the budget route, paying just $10 to $100 per month for rapamycin, an off-label immunosuppressant that’s recently become the darling of longevity zealots.
—Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zealot
Noun
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Though the central bank’s partisans will claim in breathy tones that the Fed’s thinking and decisions aren’t compromised by the tawdry politics that so many associate with Washington, the reality is quite different.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Trump and his partisans have raged against these orders, many of them issued by individual district judges in deep-blue districts on very short time frames.—
The Editors,
National Review,
19 May 2025
Noun
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Colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War One, Adolf Hitler.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps no other American statesman has ever disdained the role of idealism in foreign policy—the meddling of human-rights activists and democracy crusaders—quite like Kissinger.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
1 May 2025
Noun
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More than a dozen activists were arrested Wednesday evening during a protest at U.S. Immigration Court in Manhattan, police sources said.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
29 May 2025
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Still, many families and activists are speaking out against the CIF for allowing the situation to continue at all, and the Trump administration has given no indication the rule changes will satisfy its demands on the issue.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
28 May 2025
Noun
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Buzz in pursuit of Volkswagen Bus fanatics and stories.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 May 2025
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Content creators, celebs, and beauty fanatics loved the OG high-shine finish lippie so much that Tarte created a line of shimmery shades for it, too.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
19 May 2025
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“Zealot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zealot. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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