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Rather, I understood such zealous procedures as necessary security precautions.

Although zealous in defense of their own rights and freedoms, they are less concerned about the rights and freedoms of those who are not like them.

Since no amount of logical arguments, cajoling or bribery will change the minds of zealous conspiracy theorists, Fauci probably won’t convince skeptics that the NIH bigwig is a paragon of public service.

To get it right, it’s important not to be over zealous on the number of channels used, within whatever company tools are used to communicate — whether it’s Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, Google Docs.

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It’s easy to get over-zealous and buy grilling tools that you’ll never use.

These labels matter, but so does our over-zealous urge to dole them out and endlessly dwell on them.

Americans have a right to fear over-zealous and unwarranted surveillance by the NSA.

The extremely zealous President Kevin Baugh has been issuing war bonds to raise funds in case fighting becomes necessary.

Zealous populist patriots might pal around on principle, but banding together effectively is another matter.

Some of them were brought up in the faith; some are zealous converts.

He was so zealous a partisan of democracy, and of Cromwell, that the authorities frequently placed him in a straight jacket.

Paul Egede died, aged 81; author of an Account of Greenland, and a zealous missionary there.

He found himself among kinsmen who were zealous Roman Catholics.

Vernon was a zealous Whig, and not personally unacceptable to the chiefs of his party.

But, though Portland was an unreasonable and querulous friend, he was a most faithful and zealous minister.

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On this page you'll find 122 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to zealous, such as: ardent, avid, dedicated, earnest, fanatical, and fervent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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