doctrinaires

plural of doctrinaire

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Noun
  • Are there moments that will make architectural dogmatists cringe?
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Set against the vibrant backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance, With Love From Harlem explores a pivotal era when Black artists and thinkers reshaped cultural identity while still confronting systemic inequality.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • Workers stop acting as independent thinkers.
    Janine Schindler, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Until July 15, Argentina fans looking for community or local fanatics can view and purchase the World Cup depicted through the eyes of an artist, fútbol lover and Argentinian woman in Café Corazón at 110 Southwest Blvd.
    Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2026
  • The gridded pattern is a natural choice for any bullet journal fanatics, and it’s made up of 100% wool hand-tufted in India.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Some soccer purists grumbled about the World Cup expanding this year from 32 to 48 teams.
    Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 29 June 2026
  • Some purists may also argue that, in a competition like this, which comes around so rarely, there is a moral responsibility for teams to go full strength every time.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • Samberg was among the first to call out the inevitable crowd of bigots and MAGA-enthusiasts that would wail and scream.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 May 2026
  • And she’s proved that even people who don’t see themselves as bigots will watch this content—and in some cases laugh along.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The rise of the grammar sticklers Many of today’s ideas about what constitutes correct English are based on a singular – often mistaken – 19th-century view of the forces that govern our language.
    Valerie M. Fridland, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Yes, some sticklers would insist that greatly should never stand between to and excel.
    Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The group at the center of the feud, the UPA, was founded by nationalists loyal to Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
  • As the 1956 Suez Crisis helped crystallize an alliance between Arab nationalists and the Soviet Union, this anti-Zionist ideology took root in the Middle East.
    Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
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“Doctrinaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doctrinaires. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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