How to Use ideologue in a Sentence

ideologue

noun
  • Even so, some ideologues close to the regime think this is not enough.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
  • People are tired of the ideologues and hate from both parties.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The ideologues can go somewhere else.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The ideologues can go somewhere else.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Lula stood out as less of an ideologue and more of a pragmatist.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • His government is one of ideologues and killers, not a suicide cult.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Xi Zhongxun was not an ideologue.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 if Postecoglou is a staunch ideologue, Frank is a proud pragmatist.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Ze’ev Jabotinsky was the ideologue who gave birth to the Israeli right wing.
    — Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • The extremist ideologue was transported in the back of a truck.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Colleagues describe him as more of a pragmatist than an ideologue.
    — David Harrison, WSJ, 17 May 2018
  • But the risk of arrest for online speech is not restricted to famous far-right ideologues.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • So, what comes to the top is the information put out by ideologues and extremists.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 July 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Wolf was not known publicly as an ideologue or Trump true believer.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Ebrahim Raisi, a rigid ideologue and the head of the judiciary, was elected.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Still, Shifter said, Boric is more of a conciliator than an ideologue.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Surely, even the most fervent ideologues could chill out on July Fourth.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The only leverage those ideologues can wield, then, is threatening the speaker’s job.
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
  • For free-market ideologues, government schools are always a last resort and available to the poor.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
  • Wales writes that governments, activists, and ideologues have sought to use the platform’s editing tools to push their worldview.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 9 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • These leftwing ideologues are hurting the least mobile people in their state, people stuck in a dead economy with few options.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
  • What these ideologues never seem to grasp is that the costs of their crusades are always borne heaviest by the folks on Main Street.
    — Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024

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