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also idealogue
1
as in partisan
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question
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as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country
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Recent Examples of ideologue
Even so, some ideologues close to the regime think this is not enough.
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Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
What these ideologues never seem to grasp is that the costs of their crusades are always borne heaviest by the folks on Main Street.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
And neither Coppola nor Snyder deals with how ideologues have plundered the West.
—Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
Other Tenet ideologues include Lauren Southern, Benny Johnson, and Matt Christiansen.
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 5 Sep. 2024
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Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
What these ideologues never seem to grasp is that the costs of their crusades are always borne heaviest by the folks on Main Street.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
And neither Coppola nor Snyder deals with how ideologues have plundered the West.
—Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
Other Tenet ideologues include Lauren Southern, Benny Johnson, and Matt Christiansen.
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideologue
Noun
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Political polarization in this country is such that partisans look at each other with mutual incomprehension.Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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There are some hardcore partisans who'd just like their party to run everything.CBS News, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Big dreamers have busy minds, need the intense focus of their dreams to carry them through life as far as possible.Jim Clash, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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From Chicken Man’s perspective, this guy was a dreamer.Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Rabinovitch-Fox explained how prominent activists, including Alice Paul, used colors like white to draw attention to the suffragette cause.Julia Teti, WWD, 5 Nov. 2024
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There’s always been a trade-off with the platform’s ability to narrow the distance between activists and people in positions of power.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Ideologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideologue. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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