TRUE BELIEVERS Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

true believers

noun

plural of true believer

as in partisans

one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause they were true believers in an antimaterialist lifestyle, as evidenced by their lack of possessions

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as in proponents

a person who actively supports or favors a cause true believers who fought the good fight even when it was out of fashion

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Recent Examples of true believers Because their play Sunday could buckle the resolve of even true believers. — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 The show lures corporate sponsors to the marketing mecca, where brands hope to convert experience seekers into true believers, eventually disciples. — Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 The true believers don’t want to know what his plan is for his data center spend. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026 If such pusillanimity continues, Democrats risk losing their party to a band of true believers no less destructive than the furthest extremes of the MAGA movement. — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026 Yes, there is a 131-cube engine option for the true believers. — New Atlas, 6 July 2026 On June 13, hundreds of true believers gathered at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California dressed in colorful, reflective, space-age outfits to watch a film and celebrate the existence of aliens. — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 29 June 2026 The Courant has reported some colonists were not exactly thrilled by the notion of severing ties with England and that true believers in independence probably initially were in the minority, as with all revolutions. — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2026 These guys are lifers, true believers, a family affair. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026

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Eventually, Sinclair partisans took matters into their own hands by heckling the fake newsreels and disrupting screenings.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026
Harald paid tribute to the Norwegian partisans who had fought alongside the Soviets during World War II, helping to restore the memory of a segment of the population that had long been marginalized in the official narrative of the war.

— Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of partisans

Noun

These early proponents of quantum biology sought explanations for the puzzling properties of life at the classical scale in the counterintuitive laws of physics at the quantum scale.

— Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026
For its proponents, a country could not be fully independent while its resources and institutions remained excessively dependent on decisions made elsewhere.

— Andre Pagliarini, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of proponents

Noun

Pakistan routinely accuses Kabul of allowing militants, particularly the Pakistani Taliban, to operate from Afghan territory and launch attacks across the border.

— MUNIR AHMED, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
The 1972 Summer Games in Munich were overshadowed when 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian militants.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of militants

Noun

Hundreds of supporters had gathered outside the building overnight to protest her eviction, with dozens of police officers holding them back as some tried to stop the eviction from going ahead.

— Jamie Gray, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2026
But the choice was criticized by supporters of France’s strict form of secularism in public life based on a 1905 law separating church and state.

— Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of supporters

Noun

As talks between the two sides continue — with the expectation that the situation could come to a head as soon as Sunday night — antimerger activists are planning a series of rallies in Oakland, Los Angeles and New York.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Jentleson heaps blame on Democratic professionals and activists for frittering away the Obama coalition that scored three hundred and sixty-five electoral votes in 2008 and managed sixty Senate seats the next year.

— Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of activists

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Such incidental takings are the most common way that endangered animals die, the NYT reported, so advocates fear the move largely guts the ESA.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
Too often, environmental advocates insist on the elimination of poaching, logging, and other harmful activities while remaining wholly unfamiliar with the factors at play that lead to predation, neglect, and abuse of nature.

— Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of advocates

Noun

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.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 9 June 2026
The facility remains popular among anti-immigrant crusaders, and Attorney General Uthmeier’s campaign store sells Alligator Alcatraz bumper stickers, T-shirts, and caps.

— Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026

Definition of crusaders

Noun

Which trace from our Galois representation clings to each of these terms with prime exponents depends on how our equation, , behaves in a number field defined by that particular prime.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
His mind didn’t go blank; rather, all the what-ifs multiplied like exponents, crowding his thoughts and rendering him unable to envision anything else.

— Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026

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