1
as in partisan
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
they were true believers in an antimaterialist lifestyle, as evidenced by their lack of possessions
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2
as in proponent
a person who actively supports or favors a cause
true believers who fought the good fight even when it was out of fashion
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Recent Examples of true believer
According to former Sotheby’s rainmaker Gabriela Palmieri, one reason the auction houses suffered was a lack of true believers.
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 31 Dec. 2024
His picks for the incoming administration are widely viewed as loyal, trusted, MAGA true believers who are eager to enact an agenda heavy on disruption.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
The end result is not just business success but your consumers becoming true believers in your brand.
—Jon Michail, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
For Minnelli true believers such quibbles may not matter.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 31 Dec. 2024
His picks for the incoming administration are widely viewed as loyal, trusted, MAGA true believers who are eager to enact an agenda heavy on disruption.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
The end result is not just business success but your consumers becoming true believers in your brand.
—Jon Michail, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
For Minnelli true believers such quibbles may not matter.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for true believer
Noun
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Podcasters, partisans, or anyone, really, can tell outrageous, incendiary lies about a candidate.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2025
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Johnson, who has struggled with questioning from reporters at times, will need to maintain a strong front against antagonistic partisans on Capitol Hill.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
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The 43-year-old former football player has been a longtime, outspoken proponent of LGBTQ rights.—
David K. Li,
NBC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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Indirect-cost rates are controversial: The proportion of NIH funding that has gone to them has grown over time, and proponents of trimming overhead argue that doing so would make research more efficient.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Matar was arrested the same day and was ultimately charged with the stabbing of Rushdie and Henry Reese, a 75-year-old entrepreneur and advocate for international writers who was on the stage alongside the author.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Civil rights advocates believe these measures represent a systemic rollback of rights and diversity practices that generations fought to secure and could accelerate a national shift toward exclusion based on race under the guise of immigration enforcement.—
Deborah Omontese,
The Conversation,
21 Feb. 2025
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Where earlier welfare states delivered benefits, Biden’s welfare state became a crusader for economic, social, and cultural change.—
Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
1 Feb. 2025
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His supporters depict him as a crusader for FBI reform who wants to tamp down prosecutorial misconduct and surveillance abuse.—
Eric Cortellessa,
TIME,
30 Jan. 2025
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Transit supporters call him the last chance to ensure the system gets extensive repairs, before a cascade of deferred problems ripples across the subway, buses and commuter railroads.—
Stefanos Chen,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The arrest was triggered by tips to Austrian intelligence that a supporter of IS had posted stories and videos with Islamic extremist content on several TikTok profiles.—
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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At a press conference on Friday afternoon in Miami’s Little Haiti, lawyers, activists and officials demanded the restoration of the protections and humanitarian immigration reform.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
22 Feb. 2025
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Artists, activists, and journalists love to talk about sustainability—but few understand how industry actually works.—
Kody Boye,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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The trouble is, there is little agreement about a solution — and certainly no white knight about to ride to the rescue.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2025
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The tech giant has held talks with Warner Bros Discovery and other media majors about some form of collaboration and has also been a white knight for bankrupt regional sports network owner Diamond Sports Group.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
25 Dec. 2024
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Brutalism is once again the matter of mainstream discourse with the release of The Brutalist, a three-and-a-half-hour film about an exponent of the style named Lászlo Tóth.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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An exponent of decadent literature, D’Annunzio, too, raised an army, in 1919, and even tried to establish an independent state in a part of what is now Croatia.—
Ian Buruma,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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