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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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2
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
The Bay’s issues aren’t ideological and most of us aren’t wired as ideologues anyway.
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Russell Hancock, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
But if Postecoglou is a staunch ideologue, Frank is a proud pragmatist.
—Elias Burke, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
Trump then nominated a partisan idealogue to replace her, raising fears of political interference in economic data that investors, policymakers, businesses and the Federal Reserve rely on to make decisions.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025
What is Jubilee hoping to accomplish by platforming radical perspectives and facilitating rage-bait blood sport, even between nominally well-meaning ideologues?
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
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Russell Hancock, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
But if Postecoglou is a staunch ideologue, Frank is a proud pragmatist.
—Elias Burke, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
Trump then nominated a partisan idealogue to replace her, raising fears of political interference in economic data that investors, policymakers, businesses and the Federal Reserve rely on to make decisions.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025
What is Jubilee hoping to accomplish by platforming radical perspectives and facilitating rage-bait blood sport, even between nominally well-meaning ideologues?
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideologue
Noun
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This question elicited markedly different responses among partisans.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
13 Oct. 2025
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To be a partisan is to live in intellectual bondage.—
John H Bolthouse,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Young activists are finding common cause across borders, gaining inspiration and courage through other movements going viral.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Twin Cities,
16 Oct. 2025
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Many of the activists who most recently fought to keep the park support housing development, but Smith said the project will ultimately do a disservice to students and other neighborhood residents who are losing an important open space in a crowded urban environment.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Ideologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideologue. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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