zealot
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On top of that list was Aunt Lydia, the ruthless zealot in charge of the handmaids, played so powerfully by Ann Dowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
He was a zealot, he assured the assembled, a zealot who had even passed legislation!
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2024
If you were trying to turn a lay fan into a Caitlin Clark zealot, I don’t know that Saturday’s game would have been the first one you showed them.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
“That car changed my life,” Mr. Stielow said, the moment the Ford zealot drove his ’66 Mustang into enemy territory as a G.M. engineering intern in 1988.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Blanche, on the other hand, glowed with the certainty of a zealot.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
The U.S. built the post-war world around rules—not because we are zealots about law, but because rules have helped us.
From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026
Still, the ubiquity, complexity and accountability tax filing requires make it a good litmus test of the AI zealots and doomsayers’ beliefs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Instead of more threats from zealots and incendiary statements from members of the Desmond family, it needs some healing, some understanding and some class.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Or it might have been a more loosely formed group of reactionary zealots.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025
All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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