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adjective

variants or fanatical
as in extreme
being very far from the center of public opinion because of her fanatical views, her friends know better than to try to discuss the issues with her

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Noun
Bailey was part of a small army of bitcoin fanatics who indoctrinated Trump in all things bitcoin and helped turned him from a skeptic to an evangelist. Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024 If this trailer isn’t enough for all the 4X fanatics in the house, Firaxis has even more to share, hosting a 20-minute gameplay deep dive on Twitch at 4:30PM ET later today. Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
Passages from the document sound eerily like Pompeo’s and O’Brien’s speeches: The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose its absolute authority over the rest of the world. Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2020 By Angela Haupt July 17, 2024 9:15 AM EDT Dr. Jared Ross is a shower fanatic. Angela Haupt, TIME, 17 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for fanatic 

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“Fanatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fanatic. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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