zealot
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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
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
Cleveland was a boyhood bluegrass zealot, not a prodigy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
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
Blanche, on the other hand, glowed with the certainty of a zealot.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
The cost and capability advantages of the efficient chips is what turned the Mac Mini into a hit with AI zealots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
For TV producers, it's long been tempting to invite two self-righteous zealots into a studio to bellow at each other.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
The U.S. built the post-war world around rules—not because we are zealots about law, but because rules have helped us.
From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026
Although a few zealots took issue with Dever’s selection, she lends the right proportion of jaggedness and focus to a complicated figure that needs to sustain our interest for the long term.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025
All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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