fanatic
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His influences and idols were eclectic; he was an English rock fanatic and a salsa obsessive; he loved everything from Hollywood westerns and gory B-pictures to European art-house cinema.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But when the Dutch soccer fanatic saw his team would be playing along the border of Missouri and Kansas, he made a detour in his worldwide road trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
The house is opposite Gwen's where Bryn would frequently pop in for an omelette, with its sale coming just months after a fellow fanatic bought Doris's home on the same street.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
"I became a soccer fanatic after that. And I'm hoping the same thing for my nephew" this time, he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
The crusade to create a chemically sterile, insect-free world seems to have engendered a fanatic zeal on the part of many specialists and most of the so-called control agencies.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Family members worried about how fanatics would cope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The guess here is that the mullahs are not exactly fanatics when it comes to respecting each other’s voting rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Online, true crime fanatics have parsed through information about the case — filling in the limited details with rumor, innuendo and sometimes downright conspiracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
“Severance” fanatics love those melodies as much as the deep cuts, if not more.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
Simultaneously, there is a strong tendency to brand as fanatics or cultists all who are so perverse as to demand that their food be free of insect poisons.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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