variants also idealogue

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Recent Examples of ideologue As the Trump administration demonstrates, forms of moral discourse evolved by left-wing thinkers can serve the purposes of right-wing ideologues. Graham Robb, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025 The former are represented by committed ideologues like Navarro, Lutnick and Steve Bannon, who have long pushed Trump to adopt more hardline policies. Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025 With Illinois at the epicenter of a national and potentially global crisis, the play satirizes a range of all-American ideologues: conspiracy theorists, doomsday preachers, isolationists and jingoistic military types. Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025 If these universities are truly the factories of leftist brainwashing that conservatives claim, shouldn’t these men have emerged as progressive ideologues themselves? James Unnever, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for ideologue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideologue
Noun
  • As for the loyal opposition, Democrats are in bad odor with voters and even many of their own partisans after Joe Biden’s handlers gaslighted the public on the frailty and declining faculties of the octogenarian president.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
  • In Italy this became essential reading about the experiences of Jewish partisans during the war.
    Suzanne Cope July 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • At a Los Angeles house party, an aspiring musician pursues her crush through a crowd of hopeful dreamers chasing empty promises.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
  • For all the dreamers out there, Sterling K. Brown’s got the summertime TV escape for you.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The 33-year-old state assemblyman has ensnared a wide net of seasoned billionaires and enthusiastic young activists, presented as a regular New Yorker who lived in Africa as a child.
    Alexandra Bregman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • All of these cities have something in common: Local lawmakers voted to increase police budgets in 2024, despite pressure from activists who wanted to defund the police.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025

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“Ideologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideologue. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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