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Recent Examples of fanaticism
There was enough similarity in the complaints filed with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation to imply that the fanaticism came directly from the Pentagon, where Hegseth himself has been leading prayer meetings during duty hours.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
Just think how much better for Iran and for the whole world if there was a popular and legitimate democratic government in Tehran more interested in improving the lot of the Iranian people than waging war in the name of religious fanaticism.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
As teased previously, there's a thin line between fighting for the greater good and religious fanaticism in the name of peace.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
Grande was Wen’s latest target, but there seems to be an additional layer of delusion and fanaticism that fueled this particular encounter.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
Just think how much better for Iran and for the whole world if there was a popular and legitimate democratic government in Tehran more interested in improving the lot of the Iranian people than waging war in the name of religious fanaticism.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
As teased previously, there's a thin line between fighting for the greater good and religious fanaticism in the name of peace.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
Grande was Wen’s latest target, but there seems to be an additional layer of delusion and fanaticism that fueled this particular encounter.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fanaticism
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Even though Kapelovitz claimed that Walgren is biased in favor of the prosecution, his absolute zeal for restoring criminals, no matter how awful their crimes, indicates that he himself may be biased in favor of defendants, which again calls into question his ability to rule impartially.—
Rafael Perez,
Daily News,
7 May 2026
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Katherine Graham, the then-publisher of the Washington Post, was facing intense pressure to pull support from the investigative zeal of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, her young reporting stars.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
7 May 2026
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By staying so close to black metal’s core sound, Marchenko does more to undermine the dogmatism—both racial and aesthetic—of Vikernes and his ilk than a more obviously experimental project might.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
31 Mar. 2026
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But for the audience the scariest revelation in the conversation isn’t his dogmatism.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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To her surprise, Maryam begins to develop a closer bond with her – but Nessa cannot let go of the obsession.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 May 2026
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This dark psychological thriller about guilt, obsession, truth and morality arises out of just a single conversation between strangers who happen to sit next to one another.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 May 2026
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His prose is equally forbidding—dense and abstract, in the long tradition of German philosophy.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
3 May 2026
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Those Depression-era beginnings shaped his life and judicial philosophy — treating everyone fairly, his family said.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
3 May 2026
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But as Mackintosh persuasively illustrates, the familiar emotions of jealousy, infatuation and eventually indifference — these persist and can flourish in any relationship, however free of prohibition.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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That success — as well as surviving his own murder attempt — has sparked a nationwide infatuation of Harfuch, which includes merchandise and popular ballads praising him.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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The fine points of class-action law were, of course, less influential than Crenshaw’s insistence on paying close attention to the way Black women were treated by the courts, and the essay’s most memorable lines were broader categorical claims.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Before Deborah can let that sink in, she is taken away by the cops for violating her restraining order — despite Ava’s insistence that Deborah’s speech wasn’t funny enough to count as comedy.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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As Grann starts to painstakingly reconstruct Fawcett’s voyages on the page, the longtime New Yorker staff writer also gets caught up in Fawcett’s mania.—
Eva Holland,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2026
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Ironically, an honest-to-goodness mummy movie consumed with exotica (the first one from 1932 was released in the wake of the global mania over King Tut’s tomb) makes a lot of sense right now, with America straying into foreign deserts.—
Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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He is associated with Catholic integralism, a view that Catholic social doctrine should shape public life, that the church’s moral authority matters in the political sphere.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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This approach emphasizes not just procurement, but also the development of doctrine, training frameworks, logistics networks, and sustained operational deployment in real-world conditions.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Fanaticism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fanaticism. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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