true believer

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Recent Examples of true believer Unlike Ari Aster, who tried a similar but less successful diagnosis of the current American spiritual ailment with Eddington, Anderson understands that someone can be a true believer in a righteous cause and still choose to save themself over their colleagues. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025 This Dean is a true believer in Superhero eugenics. Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025 The true believers and truly curious, the trend chasers, the nightlife purists, the wannabe influencers, the party crashers, and those who simply want to be seen. Jason Parham, Wired News, 4 Sep. 2025 Because primaries are partisan in nature, the folks who are most likely to turn out are true believers. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for true believer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for true believer
Noun
  • To be a partisan is to live in intellectual bondage.
    John H Bolthouse, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Where the political polarization of AI goes next will probably depend on unpredictable future events and how partisans opportunistically seize on them.
    Nathan E. Sanders, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Massive Attack have also joined a separate but parallel drive to pull music from Spotify altogether; proponents of that movement primarily cite founder Daniel Ek’s investment in weapons contractor Helsing, which is not linked to Israel.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Oct. 2025
  • With Newsom’s signature now on AB 1340, drivers can collectively bargain and unionize, including negotiating contracts, which would set industry-wide standards, according to proponents like bill sponsors Assemblymembers Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, and Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Israeli hostages When Hamas launched its terrorist attack, militants kidnapped nearly 250 hostages -- including women, children and elderly adults -- and took them into Gaza.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • He was injured by shrapnel fighting Hamas militants in his community of Kfar Aza and was hospitalized, while his wife, three children, and their neighbor’s child, an American girl named Abigail Idan, who was orphaned in the attack, were among those kidnapped and brought back to Gaza.
    Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Laurene Allen, an environmental advocate who lives in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where PFNA was one of several forever chemicals discovered in drinking water in 2016, was awaiting the report and is frustrated and enraged by its delay.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Immigrant rights advocates argue injured workers, regardless of their legal status, are entitled to workers' comp under state law.
    Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kennedy, a long-time anti-vaccine crusader before taking on the nation's top health post, has linked vaccines to autism and sought to rewrite the country's immunization policies.
    Reuters, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The white man in question is the show’s protagonist, Lee Raybon, an anticorruption crusader investigating a powerful family in his home city of Tulsa, Okla.
    Judy Berman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Miami philanthropists Trish and Dan Bell, who have given millions to different organizations across South Florida, are longtime supporters of the Foundation and are members of the Golden Angel Society, the Foundation’s premier giving group.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The statue is still standing years later amid a pushback from supporters, who see Columbus as a symbol of Italian American pride.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After years of advocating to expand private and religious education and homeschooling, using tax dollars, a cadre of conservative activists is in a position to push forward its agenda.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Some parental rights activists attribute the challenges to virtual, at-home learning and parents becoming more aware of educational materials.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Founder Fawn Weaver may lose control of her cult Tennessee distillery after a judge mandates a receivership—unless a white knight investor bails her out.
    Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • As any self-respecting white knight would do, Conrad bravely takes up the mantle of responsibility and decides to help Belly pick out hurricane glasses himself.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025

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“True believer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/true%20believer. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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