zealots

plural of zealot

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Recent Examples of zealots In that vacuum, religious zealots and cults manifest, nihilism thrives, and families are torn apart. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025 For weeks, Oasis zealots have devoured online videos of the siblings strolling out onstage together, arms raised in victory and hugs brief yet genuine. Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025 That's just part of what Nikita Bridan says should be a compelling package, even for anti-EV zealots. Tim Stevens, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025 Instead, a group of Jewish zealots burned the city’s storehouses in order to force the population to fight rather than wait out or appease their adversaries. Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zealots
Noun
  • 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
  • Before long, though, partisans on the other side had the inflammatory billboards replaced.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Just hours after news of the ceasefire broke, it was reported that Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, had apprehended a shipment of advanced Iranian weaponry destined for militants in the West Bank.
    Ilan Berman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The container shipping companies have steered clear of the Red Sea and the neighboring Gulf of Aden due to ongoing missile and drone attacks from Houthi militants based in Yemen.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Today’s moral crusaders assume an elementary cause-and-effect relationship between books and readers.
    Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 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
  • Showing Up’s potentially myopic perspective contrasts significantly from Reichardt’s Night Moves, a film about radical white environmental activists whose designs of blowing up a dam backfires, causing their inept leader Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) to erratically cover his tracks.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For fitness fanatics Impress the active one on your list with gifts that go the extra mile.
    Nora Colomer may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The gridded pattern is a natural choice for any bullet journal fanatics, and it’s made up of 100% wool hand-tufted in India.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025

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