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zealot

[zel-uht] / ˈzɛl ət /
NOUN
enthusiast
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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

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

A sort of penance, where by reading all the nasty comments under every post she assuages some of her guilt, as a zealot whips himself bloody to atone for sin?

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2024

Mr. Rowe long plotted his escape even as he portrayed himself to peers as a zealot of Kim’s rule.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

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

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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