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also idealogue
1
as in partisan
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question
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2
as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country
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Recent Examples of ideologue
That’s part of the idea behind the movie, was trying to understand how people can become corrupted by these charismatic ideologues who are really narcissists.
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
The referendum on the institutional hijacking of public education by ideologues, political operatives and out-of-touch union bosses must continue beyond this election season.
—Wenyuan Wu, Orange County Register, 18 Nov. 2024
Those ideologues would have varying opinions on China.
—Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
His National Labor Relations Board was laden with anti-labor ideologues.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
The referendum on the institutional hijacking of public education by ideologues, political operatives and out-of-touch union bosses must continue beyond this election season.
—Wenyuan Wu, Orange County Register, 18 Nov. 2024
Those ideologues would have varying opinions on China.
—Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
His National Labor Relations Board was laden with anti-labor ideologues.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideologue
Noun
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But the Hollywood gossip personality is a fierce partisan of the attorney, who defended him in a $25 million suit.—
Gary Baum,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Jan. 2025
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Would Jury Duty have become such a hit, and Gladden such a hero, had its producers picked a woman or a person of color or a member of the LGBTQ community (let alone a vocal political partisan) as a star?—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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That would be ideal — and MLK was, if anything, an idealist, a dreamer.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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In 1980, The Times noted, a report that two hefty gold nuggets had turned up in the Sierra Madre foothills sent a new generation of dreamers back into the hills.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
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But what Zhang, an artist and feminist activist, does with her story transforms it into a work of calmly bold modernism.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2025
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An activist protests against President Donald Trump’s plan to stop most federal grants and loans during a rally near the White House on Jan. 28, 2025 in Washington, DC.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Ideologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideologue. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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