as in loyalist
a person who loves his or her country and supports its interests and policies
the contention that true patriots would be willing to do anything for their country
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Recent Examples of patriot
The Mona Lisa is now the most famous, and most visited, painting in the world, but this was not the case until she was stolen from the Louvre—which acquired her in 1904—by Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian patriot who thought it should be returned to Italy.
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Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 13 Apr. 2026
The group — which included veteran of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard — are also all descendants of patriots of the American Revolution.
—Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
Thanks to a new English book from Boston playwright Kirsten Greenidge, the action is transported from France to 1776-era Boston where Massachusetts revolutionary and patriot Deborah Sampson has disguised herself as a man to fight for independence.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
The tools and strategies that are being used on good White protestors, undocumented children, transgender patriots, Democrats, and Republicans who fight against their party’s leader have been practiced on Black folks across American history.
—Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
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Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 13 Apr. 2026
The group — which included veteran of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard — are also all descendants of patriots of the American Revolution.
—Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
Thanks to a new English book from Boston playwright Kirsten Greenidge, the action is transported from France to 1776-era Boston where Massachusetts revolutionary and patriot Deborah Sampson has disguised herself as a man to fight for independence.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
The tools and strategies that are being used on good White protestors, undocumented children, transgender patriots, Democrats, and Republicans who fight against their party’s leader have been practiced on Black folks across American history.
—Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patriot
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Suarez was considered to be a Carollo loyalist, having worked as Carollo’s chief of staff in City Hall from 2019 to 2022.—
Tess Riski
May 7,
Miami Herald,
7 May 2026
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Historians estimate that at the beginning of the war as many as one-third of all American colonists identified as loyalists.—
Kimberly Nath,
The Conversation,
7 May 2026
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The once-dominant Labour and Conservative parties were losing votes to Reform, to the left-wing Green Party at the other end of the political spectrum, and to the nationalists in Scotland and Wales.—
Andrew MacAskill,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
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Reform also is eyeing breakthroughs in Scotland and Wales, though pro-independence nationalists the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru are likely to form governments in Edinburgh and Cardiff.—
Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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“Patriot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patriot. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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