zealot
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Diet Coke zealot Dan Kois speaks to an expert on the study of risk about whether it is time to panic.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2023
“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
Witnesses have included his flabbergasted ex-wife, who testified that he morphed from a Brooklyn family man into a zealot.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Mr. Rowe long plotted his escape even as he portrayed himself to peers as a zealot of Kim’s rule.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023
Of my brilliant mother, midwife and entrepreneur; of my eccentric father, junkman and zealot.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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The explanation is hard to untangle for those who aren’t true numerology zealots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
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
Although a few zealots took issue with Dever’s selection, she lends the right proportion of jaggedness and focus to a complicated figure that needs to sustain our interest for the long term.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025
Its activists have been derided as attention-seeking zealots and vandals and it is loathed by many for its disruptive direct action tactics.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
Religious zealots and religious dissenters were making noise while members of the Church of England and Unitarians like the Darwins also quietly questioned their faith.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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