zealot
Example Sentences
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Radical political zealots are ruling higher education like petty tyrants.
The only people for whom this is a “tough” message are the climate zealots who remain committed to the idea that rising temperatures are a totalizing emergency.
Original script drafts were even bolder about portraying that activist, who Zemeckis and Gale described as a “church-group type woman,” a dangerously Dark Ages zealot.
From Los Angeles Times
In 1970, a group of young Japanese zealots hoping to ignite a communist revolution hijacked a passenger plane and demanded to be flown to Pyongyang.
From Los Angeles Times
Jumping to the storyline’s present, we watch Isaac torturing one of the religious zealots the Wolves are warring against, known as Seraphites or Scars, by searing the man’s skin with a scorching-hot saucepan.
From Salon
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