believer

noun

Definition of believernext
as in religionist
one who professes a religious faith for believers, it was sufficient proof that a miracle had occurred

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Recent Examples of believer Bahdanau quietly doubted their potential to achieve anything like human-level intelligence, but his adviser, the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, and the postdoc on the project, Kyunghyun Cho, were believers. — Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026 Bearish analysts at Bank of America did an about-face on Salesforce — jumping over to the believers camp, where Jim Cramer has been all along in the face of artificial intelligence threats. — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026 Anyone can be a leader Martinez is a firm believer that anyone at Marriott can develop into a future leader. — Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 Working with a dedicated core of energetic young believers, Jim and his wife, Tammy Faye, built PTL from scratch, demonstrating how religion could be fused with pop culture and entertainment to better connect with American Christians. — John Wigger, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026 That’s not a coincidence – that march unfolded within a 15-minute drive from the Blue Ridge Mountain camp that hosts people seeking to find community with other non-believers. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026 And there are 20,000 doubters for every believer in Hollywood. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 The woman understood from her hasty reading that perhaps all miracles could be attributed to saints and angels if they were experienced by a believer. — Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026 In Lourdes, where believers say a famous Catholic shrine gushes with healing waters, streets were crowded with pilgrims waving flags and holding babies aloft as the pope passed in his popemobile. — Chris Livesay, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
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  1. religionist
  2. fundamentalist
Noun
  • Thus, OKing vaccines may inadvertently embolden individuals to make further changes and cajole co-religionists to condone those changes for the whole group.
    — Cory Anderson, STAT, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Marx retaliates by pulling a string of his own, getting Grossbart back on the list of soldiers headed to the Pacific, potentially turning his co-religionist into cannon fodder.
    — Andrew Ridker, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
Definition of religionist
Noun
  • Rulon Jeffs ordered his followers to move to Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, a location known as Short Creek on the border of those two states, that had been a stronghold of the Mormon fundamentalist movement since the 1920s.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Their fundamentalist, literal understanding of the Bible is one that drives them to take bigger, bolder actions to affirm their belief that the United States is a Christian nation.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026
Definition of fundamentalist

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“Believer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/believer. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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