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
Less than a year after Modi’s first visit to Ayodhya, Tripathi was standing in the same spot when a crowd led by Hindu zealots climbed the dome of Babri Masjid and destroyed it with sledgehammers and axes.
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Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
But the zealots of the boycott movement didn’t listen to the likes of Mngoma.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
Tyler takes aim at the masks people wear to hide from their true selves, evoking a middle-class gangster and a closeted religious zealot.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024
But today, a President Harris would have supine leftist zealots, such as Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), eager to do the bidding of their dear White House leader.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
But the zealots of the boycott movement didn’t listen to the likes of Mngoma.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
Tyler takes aim at the masks people wear to hide from their true selves, evoking a middle-class gangster and a closeted religious zealot.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024
But today, a President Harris would have supine leftist zealots, such as Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), eager to do the bidding of their dear White House leader.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zealot
Noun
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But the Hollywood gossip personality is a fierce partisan of the attorney, who defended him in a $25 million suit.—
Gary Baum,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Jan. 2025
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Would Jury Duty have become such a hit, and Gladden such a hero, had its producers picked a woman or a person of color or a member of the LGBTQ community (let alone a vocal political partisan) as a star?—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Hellboy himself is an anti-Nazi crusader in a world largely inspired by the fiction of the notoriously racist genius of weird fiction, H.P. Lovecraft.—
Sam Thielman,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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At times, Fok appears like a crusader who wants to question the system that leaves victims like poor innocent Man in its wake.—
Richard Kuipers,
Variety,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This exploration into Arabic poetry comes on the heels of the Arab Spring where young activists brought poetic verse to their protests.—
David Silverberg,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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But what Zhang, an artist and feminist activist, does with her story transforms it into a work of calmly bold modernism.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Zoom in: The 15th annual Eagle Watch event provides bird lovers and raptor fanatics the opportunity to see the predators dive for shad and waterfowl in the rushing waters of the Columbia and take a snooze in the trees surrounding Westrick Park.—
Meira Gebel,
Axios,
24 Jan. 2025
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Though she’s best known for her wackier Disney Channel alter egos, like London Tipton on the Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Song is actually a sports fanatic.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Zealot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zealot. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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