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n. - A fervent and even militant proponent of something.

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  • Every week some new law targetted at drivers is dreamed up by the anti-car zealots in government and the civil service.
  • GOI demostrates that a zealot is a zealot no matter what they claim as their ‘affiliation’.
  • But apparently this is what happens when you get a born-again zealot in the White House.
  • Second, anybody who's a privacy zealot is not gonna be able to get behind the whole Clear thing.
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