ideologist

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Recent Examples of ideologist Vance’s first guest was Stephen Miller, a White House deputy chief of staff and arguably the Administration’s chief ideologist. Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideologist
Noun
  • 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.
    Daren Bakst, Boston Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • His message was 180 degrees opposed to progressive ideologue professors who teach students that opposing speech is itself a threat and that violent responses are justified when their ideas are challenged.
    Amy Stephens, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With rising tuition, heavy student debt, and a shaky job market, more young workers are rethinking the four-year degree and turning to faster and cheaper routes to a steady career.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The preliminary draft released by state education officials lays out what standards Massachusetts high school students may be required to meet to graduate, replacing the former MCAS standardized testing requirement.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Iraqi prime minister at the time, Nuri al-Maliki, was a Shiite sectarian with close ties to Iran, and many of his fellow Shia thought he could be relied on to listen to Iran’s wishes and find a way to avoid clashing with an Iranian proxy militia.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • Once word got out about her treatments, her list of devotees started growing; like Hamilton, some of her more famous clients became friends.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But as Shudder‘s senior vice president of programming and acquisitions, the 37-year-old horror movie devotee still takes care to hunt from the heart.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Then there are the Muslims depicted as religious zealots.
    Deena ElGenaidi, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Like many of Harwicz’s characters, Lisa is a zealot of sorts—and an avatar of the author’s unusual belief in the value and importance of hatred.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cryer got some surprise help in the form of backup vocals when veteran teammate and longtime country music enthusiast Jimmy Butler took a mic and started singing next to him.
    Nick Friedell, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Rather than sift through the multitude of airpark websites, enthusiasts can filter available fly-in real estate to match their preference via sources like Trade-a-Plane, an aviation marketplace that’s logged everything online from aircraft parts to services since 1997.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After abruptly leaving the Chicago stop of her and Monica‘s The Boy Is Mine Tour, Brandy Norwood is explaining her exit and apologizing to fans.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Lorde and Charli ended the duet together, joyously dancing and swinging their admittedly very similar long, dark curls in a moment of intense catharsis for both the artists and their raucous fans.
    Rachel Scharf, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • None of this matters to the demo of Musk cultists, wide-eyed tourists and all-purpose trend chasers who are game for waiting three hours in line.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2025
  • As Right Wing Watch documents, uber-Trump cultist and Q-Anon theorist Liz Crokin explains in one of her videos: Adrenochrome is a drug that the elites love.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025

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“Ideologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideologist. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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