zealot

Example Sentences

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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

“Liz is not a natural born leader; she is more of a zealot than a showman,” Mr. Evans wrote to Judge Davila.

From New York Times • May 7, 2023

Of my brilliant mother, midwife and entrepreneur; of my eccentric father, junkman and zealot.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover