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drumbeater

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drum·beat·er  (drmbtr)
n.
One that supports a cause, especially vehemently.
drumbeating n.
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Noun1.drumbeater - a fervent and even militant proponent of something
partisan, zealot
advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent - a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
bigot - a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
doctrinaire, dogmatist - a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions


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Tell someone you love them, and those drumbeater parts are instinctively engaged.
Teacher's wisdom: Billy Siegenfeld by Voedish, Lynn / Dance Magazine
Murtha--and unlike the drumbeaters who seek to disparage him--I remember all too painfully how more than half of the 59,000 people whose names are on the Vietnam Memorial were killed during the five years that it took the "best and brightest" of that era to find political and diplomatic fig leaves big enough to hide the bankruptcy of their policies, to cover our nation's retreat from their ill-conceived and misdirected crusade, and to insulate themselves from public accountability.
The Iraq discussion we need by Bobrowsky, Igor / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
One of the chief drumbeaters for the steroids-don't-work movement was Bob Goldman, author of the hysterical anti-steroids polemic Death in the Locker Room.
Pumped-up hysteria: forget the hype. Steroids aren't wrecking ... by Perry, Dayn / Reason
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