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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doctrinaires
Noun
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Are there moments that will make architectural dogmatists cringe?—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Blackfin fanatics think nothing of heading offshore with 500 to 1,000 live pilchards for chumming and for bait.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2026
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So, that’s something for football fanatics, hoops heads and soccer aficionados.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
9 Apr. 2026
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As one of the nation’s most consequential legal thinkers and scholars, Heather Gerken has long directed her fierce intellect toward defending free and fair elections, a strong civic architecture, and the rule of law.—
Elizabeth Alexander,
Time,
15 Apr. 2026
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The visit also draws attention to the North African origins of Augustine, who spent only five years in Italy but is often seen through a Eurocentric lens as one of the greatest Western thinkers of Christianity for his writings on truth, evil, creation and grace.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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This subtle dose of animal print might convince even the solid-manicure purists to embrace their wild side.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
10 Apr. 2026
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This created a direct clash with golf purists — as parodied in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore 2 — resulting in the PGA suspending golfers participating in LIV.—
Skyler Trepel,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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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
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The Muslim community in Dearborn, and indeed all Muslim communities across Michigan and the whole of our nation, will not be intimidated or baited by low-rent bigots.—
Heath Kalb,
CBS News,
19 Nov. 2025
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Yes, some sticklers would insist that greatly should never stand between to and excel.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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As carry-on only travelers, Ryan and I are sticklers about efficient packing.—
Kristine Thomason,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Aug. 2025
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Nossiter said Guinea is also sensitive to the possibility that the pilots’ case could get amplified publicly by anti-Western nationalists in the country who might frame it as a sovereignty violation at a moment when Conakry is already wary of internal dissent.—
Adrian Elimian,
semafor.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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The Treaty of Trianon looms large in the imagination of Hungarian nationalists.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Doctrinaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doctrinaires. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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