How to Use ideologue in a Sentence

ideologue

noun
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  • Ze’ev Jabotinsky was the ideologue who gave birth to the Israeli right wing.
    — Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • Nuon Chea, 92, was Pol Pot’s deputy and chief ideologue.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • People are tired of the ideologues and hate from both parties.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Le Pen is not the first right-wing ideologue to emphasize her resilience in the face of those who’ve sought to cut her down.
    — Moira Weigel, The New Yorker, 6 May 2017
  • Ebrahim Raisi, a rigid ideologue and the head of the judiciary, was elected.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The extremist ideologue was transported in the back of a truck.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Lula stood out as less of an ideologue and more of a pragmatist.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Johnson remains the rock-ribbed ideologue that so endeared him to the Tea Party.
    — Time, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Or maybe Gruden is just a controlling ideologue who’s coaching in and for the wrong era.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Weeks passed while the Centers for Disease Control, run by a right-wing ideologue, scrambled to fix it.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Mar. 2020
  • His government is one of ideologues and killers, not a suicide cult.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • This lack of clarity may stem from the fact that these people are not ideologues but reformists.
    — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • So, what comes to the top is the information put out by ideologues and extremists.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 July 2018
  • In both cases, some observers might argue that this is because the ideologues have won.
    — Robert Boatright, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • Some will stem from ideologues who have felt the party has veered too far from its original left-wing vision.
    — Alex González Ormerod, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • Still, Shifter said, Boric is more of a conciliator than an ideologue.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • With less to do, people spent more time inside their homes watching TV, where right-wing pundits and ideologues thrived.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Here was a world view built less on an ideologue’s bedrock principles than an actor’s need for applause.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • But Wolf was not known publicly as an ideologue or Trump true believer.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Both the Senate and House are full of members who won’t stand up to their party’s ideologues or financial backers.
    — Carl Cannon, Orange County Register, 2 Apr. 2017
  • That, perhaps, will bring a final judgment on which Mr. Abe – the ideologue or the pragmatist – prevails.
    — Daniel Sneider, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2022
  • The irony is that Corbyn, who is seen as an ideologue, managed to do better than expected by fudging this.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
  • But in the Central Valley and Orange County, the people who inhabit those districts and cast the votes aren’t ideologues.
    — John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
  • For free-market ideologues, government schools are always a last resort and available to the poor.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
  • The only leverage those ideologues can wield, then, is threatening the speaker’s job.
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The president likes Mr Bolton’s damn-your-eyes style, but has a way of surrounding himself with diverse opinions, and tires of ideologues.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The race now is a clash of visions: the progressive ideologue vs. the liberal pragmatist.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 3 June 2022
  • His son Eduardo, now probably the chief ideologue in the family, has made sure that threats are not just subtext.
    — Vincent Bevins, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The suspect appeared to be a political ideologue with a large social media presence who became disenchanted with Trump after 2016.
    — Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Sep. 2024
  • This legal framework would have been unimaginable in 1974 to all but a handful of conservative ideologues embittered by Nixon’s resignation.
    — Duncan Hosie / Made By History, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024

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