as in lover
a person with a strong and habitual liking for something
skiing enthusiasts can't wait for the first snowfall of the season
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Recent Examples of enthusiast
Here are seven answers to burning questions that drivers, enthusiasts and fans of the BMW brand may have.
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Charles Singh, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
Walking shoeless on varied surfaces also may contribute to emotional well-being and overall foot health, according to podiatrists and barefoot enthusiasts.
—ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
The star also gets a rough ride from many of the elementary school interviewees that allows the unlikely gardening enthusiast to embrace his more familiar manchild.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 22 Apr. 2026
For an extraterrestrial enthusiast of a certain stripe, the mystery has landed like a modern-day Roswell.
—Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 22 Apr. 2026
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Charles Singh, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
Walking shoeless on varied surfaces also may contribute to emotional well-being and overall foot health, according to podiatrists and barefoot enthusiasts.
—ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
The star also gets a rough ride from many of the elementary school interviewees that allows the unlikely gardening enthusiast to embrace his more familiar manchild.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 22 Apr. 2026
For an extraterrestrial enthusiast of a certain stripe, the mystery has landed like a modern-day Roswell.
—Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enthusiast
Noun
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That’s probably why class-crossed lovers make such fertile ground for fiction—look at Heathcliff and Cathy, or poor Scudder and Maurice.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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Options for 2026 include food cruises that travel through Burgundy and Provence and a 15-day wine lovers cruise on the Rhine and Seine Rivers.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
11 Apr. 2026
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The three-day event draws more than 100,000 fans every year for the festival, which headlines largely country music acts while raising money for marine conservation.—
Joan Murray,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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The fan tried to offer some context.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Apr. 2026
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Snip upright suckers and water sprouts that zap the tree’s energy.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
17 Apr. 2026
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But to think that suckers get an even break when insiders have information that assures them of winning is folly.—
William Mersey,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Consider, Trump is the only world leader, Pope XIV included, who not only vowed to prohibit the apocalyptic fanatics in Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but did something about it.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
18 Apr. 2026
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And for the aviation fanatic, ice cream stick planes never made the cut.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Enthusiast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enthusiast. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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