noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a great believer in
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Len was a great believer in the power of positive thinking.
fervent admirer/believer etc
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a fervent supporter of human rights
firm believer
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Corey was always a firm believer in prayer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
firm
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He was a firm believer in the power of prayer.
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Bill Tobin is a firm believer that the scouting department should have more influence than assistant coaches in running the draft.
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Despite the obstacles they encountered in their research and their own experience, the three young interviewers remain firm believers in inclusion.
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Daley was a firm believer in the bootstrap theory.
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A firm believer in mysticism and fate, he felt he had ignored the course his intuition was guiding him to follow.
great
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Lampard was a great believer in eating whenever you could.
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History had made the Saigormais great believers in luck.
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Birch was also a great believer in the corrosion-resistant qualities of cast-iron columns, and this confidence was fully vindicated by time.
religious
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This is a great temptation facing the religious believer .
true
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And nobody is going to more than three Warriors games without being a true believer .
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In short, the Middle East sets true believer against true believer with survival as the issue.
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But the true believers are an irrepressible group.
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Each is a true believer from a distinct wing of the conservative movement.
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What causes seem most likely to mobilize true believers to take extraordinary political actions?
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Not like back in the old days when just a few eccentrics and a handful of true believers would come out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Conley is a devout believer in specialty niches.
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Efficient-market believers could strike it rich if they could persuade people to give up.
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Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded.
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She was a strong believer in women's participation in public affairs.
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The men behind the plan, he said, were respected Agency veterans, deep believers in a free Havana.
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The movie is less than a miracle, but it made a believer out of me.