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dogma

[dawg-muh, dog-] / ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg- /


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Friedman was, as usual, channeling mainstream foreign policy dogma, which briefly held that constructive change might emerge from the chaotic aftermath of the Oct.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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

He has led talks to energize employees, reminding them never to speak of the company’s forthcoming products, a nod to the company’s secrecy dogma preached by Jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

“I don’t know what the dogma is, but I know it nearly turned my brother’s hair grey.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

CrossFit might, per the founder, have a bit of a religion-slash-biker-gang aura around it—but what it transmitted to me about food and body fat wasn’t all that different from the standard cultural dogmas.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023

In “Succession,” “Ozark” and to lesser extent, “Better Call Saul,” the prisons are a bit more DIY, a combination of unfortunate circumstances twisted into something worse by certain dogmas of family, power, identity and legacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

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

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

All these dogmata were mingled in an equal contempt for existing institutions in one same aspiration for the renewal of the mind and things.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde

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

Early writers of the modern period, Protestant or Roman Catholic, use it frequently of heretics; thus the Augsburg Confession protests Dogmata in revived use. that the Protestants have carefully avoided nova dogmata.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

If then, in the speculative sphere of pure reason, no dogmata are to be found; all dogmatical methods, whether borrowed from mathematics, or invented by philosophical thinkers, are alike inappropriate and inefficient.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn




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