as in partisan
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
zealots on both sides of the issue resorted to name-calling and scare tactics
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Recent Examples of zealot
Other folks go the budget route, paying just $10 to $100 per month for rapamycin, an off-label immunosuppressant that’s recently become the darling of longevity zealots.
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Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2025
Outside of a handful of terminally online zealots who do more harm than good to their side, nobody is invested in today’s presidential side quests.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 11 Mar. 2025
The Hold, its halls bereft of the zealots, liars, and dung-eating murderers who haunt it in Elden Ring, feels empty and perfunctory.
—Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2025
There was Hugh Grant as a fiendishly charming religious zealot in Heretic, Naomi Scott as a pop star fighting both literal and figurative demons in Smile 2, and Justice Smith as a shy teen who develops an obsession with a cult horror series in I Saw the TV Glow.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
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Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2025
Outside of a handful of terminally online zealots who do more harm than good to their side, nobody is invested in today’s presidential side quests.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 11 Mar. 2025
The Hold, its halls bereft of the zealots, liars, and dung-eating murderers who haunt it in Elden Ring, feels empty and perfunctory.
—Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2025
There was Hugh Grant as a fiendishly charming religious zealot in Heretic, Naomi Scott as a pop star fighting both literal and figurative demons in Smile 2, and Justice Smith as a shy teen who develops an obsession with a cult horror series in I Saw the TV Glow.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zealot
Noun
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The other choice is an extreme partisan, someone who is selling out to special interests, has a long history of doing that, and has now tied himself to Elon Musk.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Piazzale Loreto is where the body of dictator Benito Mussolini was strung and up stoned after his execution by Italian partisans.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Most of the congressional Republicans have signed a no-taxes pledge from anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform group, even as others signal some interest.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Apr. 2025
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Think of it as Bannon on the one side, versus Newt Gingrich, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist and others on the other — a debate that once seemed unfathomable for Republicans who have spent generations working to lower taxes and reduce the scope of the federal government.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images BP shares whipsawed on Wednesday after activist investor Elliott went public with a stake of more than 5% in the struggling British oil major, which has pivoted back to oil in a bid to restore investor confidence.—
Ruxandra Iordache,Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
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The Trump administration used the same argument to detain fellow Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil — who, like Mahdawi, has a green card — and Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2025
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Plenty of Phish-heads may be annoying, but so are plenty of Deadheads, metalheads, hip-hop heads, yacht-rock ironists, Springsteen fanatics.—
Will Hermes,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2025
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An old pal of mine — a Dodgers fanatic who adores Monfort the way Bugs Bunny adored Elmer Fudd — likes to joke that there are only two types of Rockies fans left at Coors Field by the All-Star break: Barely alive or barely sober.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Zealot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zealot. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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