fanatic
Example Sentences
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JW: I was a DJ around L.A. and I’m still a record collector and a fanatic about music, as well as film, and so I wanted to create an atmosphere.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
“The campaign to glorify him,” wrote one biographer in 1988, “has surpassed fanatic religious fervor. The North Korean ‘sun of the nation’ shines both day and night, and it is hard to escape his ubiquity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
By the end of the first season, I was a fanatic.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
With a fanatic following, limited auto production, and high margins on cars averaging about $500,000 each, Ferrari is more like a luxury company than an auto maker.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
She did not hear me, she went on raving like a mad-woman, a fanatic, her long fingers twisting and tearing the black stuff of her dress.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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