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Recent Examples of zealotry
Khamenei’s zealotry is very unlikely to outlive him in Iran’s highest echelons of power.
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Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 June 2025
The clash of zealotry and conciliation, the question of how best to do the right thing, animates the O’Dwyer story in ways eerie and often striking.
—Dan Morrison, USA Today, 28 May 2025
This pivot could become painful for Jewish communities at a time of rising antisemitism and anti-Israel zealotry around the world.
—Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 12 May 2025
This has been a show largely about how zealotry can interfere with reason and compassion, which is plainly evident in the cascading disasters that end the Jedi’s and the witches’ time on Brendok.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 July 2024
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Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 June 2025
The clash of zealotry and conciliation, the question of how best to do the right thing, animates the O’Dwyer story in ways eerie and often striking.
—Dan Morrison, USA Today, 28 May 2025
This pivot could become painful for Jewish communities at a time of rising antisemitism and anti-Israel zealotry around the world.
—Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 12 May 2025
This has been a show largely about how zealotry can interfere with reason and compassion, which is plainly evident in the cascading disasters that end the Jedi’s and the witches’ time on Brendok.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zealotry
Noun
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The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Feb. 2026
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Mickela Mallozzi dances with the same fervor that Anthony Bourdain brought to eating, that Sam Brown brings to vacationing, and that Rick Steves brings to doing Europe on a shoestring.—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Jan. 2026
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After some determination and zeal, he was hired as a graduate assistant at the University of Georgia in 2010.—
D. Orlando Ledbetter,
AJC.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Panarin embraced it with a combination of zeal and naivety that endeared him to the Blueshirts faithful.—
Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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The Dow has experienced various bull and bear markets, from the roaring 1920s to the Great Depression, the exuberance of the dot-com bubble in the 1990s to crash of the early 2000s, and the slides and rebounds of the financial crisis of 2008 and the Covid-19 pandemic in the early 2020s.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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Away from the irrational exuberance, there are still sensible investments to be made.—
Mikael Johnsson,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2026
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In practice that means less competition and more enthusiasm.—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
2 Feb. 2026
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That’s a solid start for the $40 million production, which is expected to stick around beyond its debut, thanks to great word-of-mouth and enthusiasm for original horror.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Zealotry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zealotry. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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