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also idealogue
1
as in partisan
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question
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2
as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country
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Recent Examples of ideologue
With Illinois at the epicenter of a national and potentially global crisis, the play satirizes a range of all-American ideologues: conspiracy theorists, doomsday preachers, isolationists and jingoistic military types.
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Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
If these universities are truly the factories of leftist brainwashing that conservatives claim, shouldn’t these men have emerged as progressive ideologues themselves?
—James Unnever, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025
That his competency is questioned by ideologues relative to things that are currently in the political climate in Washington.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
Its modern ideologues, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have sought to convert Hinduism from a faith into something more akin to an ethnic identity to better consolidate the political supremacy of India’s Hindu majority.
—Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
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Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
If these universities are truly the factories of leftist brainwashing that conservatives claim, shouldn’t these men have emerged as progressive ideologues themselves?
—James Unnever, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025
That his competency is questioned by ideologues relative to things that are currently in the political climate in Washington.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
Its modern ideologues, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have sought to convert Hinduism from a faith into something more akin to an ethnic identity to better consolidate the political supremacy of India’s Hindu majority.
—Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideologue
Noun
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Trump and allies such as Davis have complained that the judges ruling against him are left wing partisans.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
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Such rhetoric alarms those who worry about reopening the divisions of 1971, when Bengali partisans fought Pakistani forces – and each other.—
Simon Montlake,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 May 2025
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The chants outside the Islamic Republic embassy, the clatter of Persian tea glasses at gatherings of dissidents in our cramped government housing, the news of bombings and assassinations that stole friends and fellow dreamers.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
17 June 2025
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The gap between dreamers and achievers lives in daily discipline.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
Noun
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The Columbia University activist landed at Newark Airport on Saturday.—
Armando Garcia,
ABC News,
21 June 2025
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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil speaking after his release from federal immigration detention on Friday, June 20, 2025.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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“Ideologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideologue. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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