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Noun
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His detractors call him a zealot.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026 -
In the novel, the servant Joseph is a self-righteous zealot who’s always banging on about the Bible.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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Zig-zagging from a tactical fundamentalist in Amorim to the ultimate pragmatist in the former England boss makes a degree of sense for a club desperate to find stability and show progress.—
Peter South,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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And speaking of God, Heather has been teasing a spooky urban legend all episode about a Mormon fundamentalist who, rumor has it, disappeared into the valley to basically hunt good-time girls.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
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These are artifacts for cultists, to be sure, but how big is the clique that has been waiting to hear all this unvaulted material?—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2026
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Islamists battled for their own theocratic nation, and bands of Christian cultists—whom locals, naming them according to their most notorious act, called chop-chop—severed the heads of those deemed unholy in villages and towns across Mindanao.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Pietist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pietist. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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