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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proselytizer
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The missionaries arrived in 1820, and mosquitos not too long after in 1826.—
Will McGough,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025 -
As cinematic tapestry, Mitevska’s cloistered film does feel cut from the cloth of Calcutta in 1948 and from the Catholic missionary work one attributes to that time.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
27 Aug. 2025
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For Byrne, an apostle of euphoria, all this giddiness seems fitting.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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The 9th-century monastery rises from the plateau—its stone walls etched with faded medieval frescoes of apostles and Last Judgement scenes.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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To maintain tanks’ relevance, Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have covered them in different configurations of armor as ad hoc solutions to rapidly shifting tactics.—
Marco Hernandez,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed soldiers had been sent to the area, per the BBC.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Ann and her acolytes journey to America to find more followers—a portion of the tale that feels more adrift but then finds its footing, largely thanks to another musical interlude.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
1 Sep. 2025
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Some acolytes have even gotten tattoos of the studio’s logo.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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As Robinson, a Sean McVay disciple, was brought in to modernize Atlanta's scheme.—
Cecil Merkerson III,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
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As possessed people speak in foreign tongues and violence rises, Ahmed fears regaining memory, while the disciple fears his master’s decline may unleash an ancient evil.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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Trump and his hogmen are co-opting actual Nazi lingo from the gutter of the internet, speaking in references only Fox News viewers and Q-Anon adherents can parse, and rehabilitating the r-word as some sort of edgy pose that the rest of us learned was cruel in middle school.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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After the Great Black Migration in the 1920s, our city was one of the centers of the Ku Klux Klan’s revival as the strongest populist movement of the decade, claiming 5 million adherents, with 50,000 in Chicago alone.—
Jackson Potter,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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But the fate of the votary is to require and receive a constant renewal of faith.—
Jeff Weiss,
Spin,
21 Aug. 2023
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Many remember the Cultural Revolution as a time of Red Guard excess—of the people terrorizing the votaries of the party.—
Mary Gallagher,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2023
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Tate has amassed more than 10 million followers on X and hundreds of thousands more on other platforms like Telegram and Truth Social.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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To emphasize the sad state of affairs, Ilett updated his followers on another bad hair day from inside a running shower, his matted locks drooping to his cheekbones.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Proselytizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proselytizer. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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