as in opinionated
given to or marked by the forceful expression of strongly held opinions
a doctrinaire conservative, the columnist takes special delight in baiting liberals
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as in theorist
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Recent Examples of doctrinaire
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Murdoch’s media muscle has been increasingly buttressed by his Wall Street Journal revenues as well as those of the doctrinaire Fox News.
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Peter Bart,
Deadline,
11 Sep. 2025
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
2 Feb. 2025
Back when Republicans were less doctrinaire, few objected to Ronald Reagan’s legalization through legislation on the status of otherwise law-abiding immigrants who crossed illegally or overstayed.
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Letters To The Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
7 Aug. 2024
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Adjective
Even leaving these facts aside, neither the doctrinaire socialism nor militant Islam have ever improved any place on earth, and New York City will not be the first.
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Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Murdoch’s media muscle has been increasingly buttressed by his Wall Street Journal revenues as well as those of the doctrinaire Fox News.
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Peter Bart,
Deadline,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
First, the election of a U.S. president who seems agnostic toward technology but may be agnostic one minute and then doctrinaire another — doctrinaire to a new, undefined, capricious ideology.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
2 Feb. 2025
Back when Republicans were less doctrinaire, few objected to Ronald Reagan’s legalization through legislation on the status of otherwise law-abiding immigrants who crossed illegally or overstayed.
—
Letters To The Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
7 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doctrinaire
Adjective
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There’s the yellow, blue-nosed beaver Norb (Nick Bakay) — witty, sophisticated, sarcastic, and opinionated.
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Leaving the book over editorial disagreements became a pattern that repeated several times in Byrne’s career, and his willingness to be blunt about his peers’ quality of work earned him a reputation of being opinionated.
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There was a viewpoint among purists that combinatorics was sort of a bag of tricks.
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Yes, purists love pitching duels.
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That’s one of the things that's true, is that some people called me a conspiracy [theorist] on the Epstein stuff.
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The political theorist Hélène Landemore has won notice as a champion of direct democracy, which would allow the barriers between center and periphery to give way.
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At all stages of history, Habermas shows, humanity has been trying to work out codes for the common good, and these surface even in times of dogmatic repression.
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If confidence, dogmatic beliefs, and undeniable talent were elixirs of life, Frank Lloyd Wright would be alive today, celebrating what would have been his 159th birthday.
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Are there moments that will make architectural dogmatists cringe?
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They were refined and astute thinkers.
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While agile new companies can offer top AI thinkers massive equity upside, Hassabis’s confidence is rooted in Google’s structural advantages, including its unparalleled ecosystem of data, integrated hardware, and sheer computing power.
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The weather service’s forecast discussion for Kansas City said the stubborn heat could last through the Fourth of July.
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Against all odds, the stubborn housing market has become a hotspot for young talent.
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Aguirre is a stickler like that.
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Her employer may also be a stickler for being punctual.
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“Doctrinaire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doctrinaire. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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