as in partisan
one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices a dogmatist as far as economics are concerned, he's an unquestioning supporter of the supply-side theory

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Recent Examples of dogmatist Although not a dogmatist, Xi cares deeply about ideology and has even blamed the collapse of the Soviet Union in part on Moscow’s failure to ensure that people took Marxism-Leninism seriously. Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024 While seeing themselves as the forces of enlightenment, these folks who use the prince of darkness as their mascot are really intolerant dogmatists. Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024 Americans, even or especially historians, tend to treat the early New Englanders as dogmatists: narrow, pious simpletons. Marilynne Robinson, Harper's Magazine, 1 July 2022 But even at its height, this view only gained currency among a very small cohort of sectarian dogmatists. Adolph Reed Jr., The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019 Which brings us to the flaw in this admirable book: Mr. King is a purist and a dogmatist whose tastes, though deep, are freakishly narrow. Evan Eisenberg, WSJ, 24 May 2018
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Noun
  • But the Hollywood gossip personality is a fierce partisan of the attorney, who defended him in a $25 million suit.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Would Jury Duty have become such a hit, and Gladden such a hero, had its producers picked a woman or a person of color or a member of the LGBTQ community (let alone a vocal political partisan) as a star?
    Judy Berman, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • People want to get rid of religious parties, people want to put sectarians behind to build an Iraq for all Iraqis.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2015
  • Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • John Wise, an openly anti-Chinese bigot and the collector of customs in San Francisco who controlled immigration into the port, wanted a test case that would deny U.S. citizenship to ethnic Chinese residents.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Okay, so everyone who doesn’t believe in Scientology or points out its bad behavior is a bigot?
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024

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“Dogmatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dogmatist. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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