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

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

Blanche, on the other hand, glowed with the certainty of a zealot.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz