dogmatizer

as in partisan
one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices in his foreign policy speech the secretary of state showed that he is anything but a dogmatizer

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Noun
  • After a nine-month war, in which India sided with the Bengali partisans, Pakistan was defeated and an independent Bangladesh was declared in March 1971.
    Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2025
  • In 2016, Clinton became an active partisan in support of his wife, Hillary Clinton, during her unsuccessful bid for president.
    Peter Kastor, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Sly had too generous a spirit to be a dogmatist.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
  • 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
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
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“Dogmatizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dogmatizer. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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