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[zel-uhs] / ˈzɛl əs /


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The Times was implicated as well, and civil rights attorney Scott Hechinger, who heads Zealous, a criminal justice reform initiative, called it out in a withering Twitter thread.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2022

Zealous mugging is in evidence early on in the online presentation of Madhuri Shekar’s “In Love and Warcraft,” a collaboration between San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater and Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre, directed by Peter Kuo.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2020

Zealous champions of moral reform, then as today, thought that a proper function of the law was to eradicate vice and immorality.

From Forbes • Jul. 15, 2014

Zealous advocacy to defeat the law in court is commendable.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2011

Zealous defenders credit him with all virtues, and bless him as the instrument divinely ordained to restore the peace of the Church; virulent detractors charge him with ingratitude, cowardice and double-dealing.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various




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