dogma

The very best novels will never try to explicitly sell you lies as the truth, or narrative as dogma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"This challenges the dogma that calorie reduction is necessary to lose weight, but it also tells us that we need to have clear understanding of the mechanisms," he said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

This is a refreshing change from the dogma of the past several years.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Thus, he dared to break with long-held dogma that the economy would overheat and spark runaway inflation if allowed to grow at a sustained rate of much above 2.5% per year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

"Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity," sniffed Lyell.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

In the Middle East, the dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

"It is up to all of us to preserve confidence in our democratic coexistence," he said, adding: "In democracy, one's own ideas can never be dogmas; nor can those of others be threats."

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

And speaking at the FDA was not just a matter, for these figures, of challenging conventional dogmas, but of boosting their own reputations, sometimes to the benefit of their own finances and audiences.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025

It probes how the act of co-opting idealisms and converting them to dogmas has occurred many times over.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

At parties they start to ask leading questions that have the ring of inquisition; they are interested in my positions, my dogmas.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

By little and little, if thou doest not better look to it, those sacred dogmata will be blotted out of thy mind.

From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Let us, then, without farther notice of the dogmata of the schools of art, follow forth those conclusions to which we are led by observance of the laws of nature.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin

In the first place quite a number of ignorant persons have thought that the discovery of spontaneous generation would upset religious dogmata.

From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

So much for the dogmata of my friend Lismahago, whom I describe the more circumstantially, as I firmly believe he will set up his rest in Monmouthshire.

From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The foregoing considerations may be summed up in the form of three dogmata, all of which orthodox Christianity teaches.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce