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also idealogues
1
as in partisans
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 dreamers
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 ideologues
The key point is that consumers should be able to decide for themselves what kind of bags or straws to use, not the government and ideologues who want to impose their preferences on everyone else.
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Daren Bakst, Boston Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Joe Rogan visibly shocked by Charlie Kirk's death, warns of ideologues 'celebrating this'.
—FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
But the risk of arrest for online speech is not restricted to famous far-right ideologues.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
The Bay’s issues aren’t ideological and most of us aren’t wired as ideologues anyway.
—Russell Hancock, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
What is Jubilee hoping to accomplish by platforming radical perspectives and facilitating rage-bait blood sport, even between nominally well-meaning ideologues?
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Daren Bakst, Boston Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Joe Rogan visibly shocked by Charlie Kirk's death, warns of ideologues 'celebrating this'.
—FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
But the risk of arrest for online speech is not restricted to famous far-right ideologues.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
The Bay’s issues aren’t ideological and most of us aren’t wired as ideologues anyway.
—Russell Hancock, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
What is Jubilee hoping to accomplish by platforming radical perspectives and facilitating rage-bait blood sport, even between nominally well-meaning ideologues?
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideologues
Noun
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This question elicited markedly different responses among partisans.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
13 Oct. 2025
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Where the political polarization of AI goes next will probably depend on unpredictable future events and how partisans opportunistically seize on them.—
Nathan E. Sanders,
Time,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But activists continue their quest to erase differences between men and women by forcing schools to allow men to compete in women’s sports.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Pro-Palestinian activists view the phrase as a call for global support of Palestinian resistance against Israel, but many Jewish people view the saying as antisemitic and a call for violence.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Ideologues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideologues. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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