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Noun
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Putin, surrounded by expanding circles of nationalist zealots, has been laying out plans to despatch invading armies to recapture lands that were once part of the Russian Tsarist empires, or the Soviet Union that followed.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025 -
There are many reasons to distrust Netanyahu: his habitual lying; his willingness to prop up his coalition with religious zealots and racists; his brutal, protracted prosecution of the war in Gaza, a strategy that seems motivated in no small measure by a desire to cling to power.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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The Director warns Eve that this is a rogue group of lawless cultists and orders her not to pursue the matter.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2025
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Photo by Marc Stephan/Shutterstock Blue and John Crow Mountains, Jamaica Coffee cultists associate this Caribbean island’s Blue Mountains with the source of rare, pricey beans.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
9 June 2025
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“Pietist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pietist. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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