true believer
noun
1
: a person who professes absolute belief in something
2
: a zealous supporter of a particular cause
Synonyms
Examples of true believer in a Sentence
they were true believers in an antimaterialist lifestyle, as evidenced by their lack of possessions
true believers who fought the good fight even when it was out of fashion
Recent Examples on the Web
And no ones sees that landing field more clearly than Michael O’Leary, Boeing’s disappointed customer, but still true believer.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
Mostly, Invincible Shield is the sound of metal’s true believers spreading their message of salvation through headbanging.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
The true believers One person who is a believer is longtime writer and journalist Leslie Kean.
—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
The thousands of true believers in San Diego don’t have to kid themselves anymore.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
The Bush administration went a long way toward ending arms control, but the true believers returned to power under Obama.
—John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
The 1950s and ’60s had been a nightmare for true believers in capitalism as a natural system of spontaneous order.
—Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
Then again, its slightly glazed and brittle quality is precisely the reason true believers like me love it so.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
This shift amounts to a kind of intellectual death spiral in which true believers on both sides insist on self-serving opinions that have no basis in fact and allow for no legitimacy on the opposing side.
—Sebastian Junger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
Mostly, Invincible Shield is the sound of metal’s true believers spreading their message of salvation through headbanging.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
The true believers One person who is a believer is longtime writer and journalist Leslie Kean.
—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
The thousands of true believers in San Diego don’t have to kid themselves anymore.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
The Bush administration went a long way toward ending arms control, but the true believers returned to power under Obama.
—John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
The 1950s and ’60s had been a nightmare for true believers in capitalism as a natural system of spontaneous order.
—Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
Then again, its slightly glazed and brittle quality is precisely the reason true believers like me love it so.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
This shift amounts to a kind of intellectual death spiral in which true believers on both sides insist on self-serving opinions that have no basis in fact and allow for no legitimacy on the opposing side.
—Sebastian Junger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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“True believer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/true%20believer. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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