proselytizer

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Noun
  • Around that same time, Priscilla Baltimore and Bishop William Paul Quinn, an African Methodist Episcopal missionary, established the town’s AME church, which along with a Baptist church and a number of homes, served as stops in the Underground Railroad.
    Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
  • But the two young missionaries are then forced to prove their faith by becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Reed.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Erastus Snow was an apostle from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in charge of Arizona colonization.
    Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The other day, The Athletic’s Duncan Alexander — an analytics apostle if ever there was one — got talking with a data denier in a pub.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Now the soldiers and horses have been rehearsing for months, with bands playing and cannons firing, to prepare them for the pomp and circumstance of a president’s funeral, said Maj. Wes Strickland, a spokesman for the Old Guard.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
  • When the soldiers, instead of rising up, jeered at him, Mishima killed himself in the classic samurai fashion: performing hara-kiri, or seppuku (as the Japanese more commonly call it), by plunging a sword into his abdomen before a uniformed disciple sliced his head off.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Tucker Carlson, the Trump acolyte and former Fox News presenter, visits Moscow, where he is granted a two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin, most of which consists of Carlson being lectured on Russian history.
    The Week UK, theweek, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Just six days before last month’s elections, while other Trump acolytes were appearing on mainstream television or high-profile podcasts, Patel logged on to an ultrafringe livestreaming platform called Pilled, home to many of the biggest QAnon influencers.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • And then there's Elon Musk and his Doge disciples, who reportedly include longtime associate and Boring Co. president Steve Davis.
    Dan Primack, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Unfortunately for Donald Trump and his disciples, Mother Nature—like the equally tempestuous Stormy Daniels—can’t be bought off with hush money.
    Jack Sullivan, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Politics has a way of consuming its adherents and turning them into screaming Muppets without the entertainment value.
    Brenda Looper, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Better, like the Deep Adaptation adherents, to dedicate themselves to accepting their fate.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But the fate of the votary is to require and receive a constant renewal of faith.
    Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Many remember the Cultural Revolution as a time of Red Guard excess—of the people terrorizing the votaries of the party.
    Mary Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
Noun
  • The creator industry works because of the relationships that are built between creators and their followers.
    Rodney Mason, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Posts no longer appear in followers’ timelines instantly, and posts with links are shown less, like service alerts with links for more details, agency officials said in a statement.
    Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Proselytizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proselytizer. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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