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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
In embracing a rapprochement with the United States under President Obama, Raúl Castro, long seen as an ideologue by Cubanologists, played the hand of a pragmatist.
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Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
21 May 2026
But political ideologues from both the left and the right seem to prefer histories in which the United States is either all bad or all good.
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Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
And given the challenges from both left and right, our best hope is to strengthen a political center that brings together moderates who reject the ideologues on their flanks.
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Joshua M. Davidson,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2026
The people interviewed by Theroux are not ideologues in the traditional sense.
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Steven Burg,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2026
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Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
21 May 2026
But political ideologues from both the left and the right seem to prefer histories in which the United States is either all bad or all good.
—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
And given the challenges from both left and right, our best hope is to strengthen a political center that brings together moderates who reject the ideologues on their flanks.
—
Joshua M. Davidson,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2026
The people interviewed by Theroux are not ideologues in the traditional sense.
—
Steven Burg,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideologue
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Meanwhile, partisans continued to spar over dozens of Republican bills that would allow voters to lower property taxes for homeowners by raising sales taxes on everyone.
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When anti-elite sentiment is bipartisan, the real swing voter becomes the disgruntled partisan.
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For generations, Chicago has thrived because dreamers could make it here with little to their name and make something of themselves, and the bus is a prime way to do so.
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Before her death in 1993, Mabel McKay — one of the last living dreamers of the Pomo Indian people — shared a prophecy while driving through the Sonoma hills.
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Pakistani Taliban militants and other armed groups also operate in the region.
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Sullivan and Sodais watched together as the militants seized Herat.
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Newsom’s team created a broad coalition of opponents, including healthcare and education activists, that undercut the foundational argument for the tax.
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The action, set on France’s rugged northern coast, is anchored by teen romance, involves far-right anti-migrant activists, and is complicated by blue goo from space that creates clones—including of the two loopy police officers who investigate.
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Saba masquerades like a CEF crusader whose mission is to eliminate any and every CEF discount.
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The book is full of stories of villains, like the venomous heroin that took so many of Seattle’s crusaders as well as the music industry that never quite understood where Soundgarden belonged.
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“Ideologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideologue. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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