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

The Times quickly issued two formal corrections: The link to incitement was not clear, or plausibly fuzzy, it turned out: The shooter was not a partisan zealot but a schizophrenic.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2025

Cleveland was a boyhood bluegrass zealot, not a prodigy.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 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

Ishmael’s grandfather had been a Highland Presbyterian, his grandmother an Irish zealot from the bogs above Lough Ree; they met in Seattle five years before the Great Fire, wed, and raised six sons.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson