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dogma

[dawg-muh, dog-] / ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg- /


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"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

Her break with what she called "anti-clim' dogma" is significant because until now the Green movement in France has regarded air-conditioning as the worst of solutions to climate change.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

But just as pizzaiolos have riffed on the Neapolitan pie, some artisanal bakers have found that the key to success lies in strategically breaking from dogma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

“Equality’s good. But equality and sameness are two different things. Sometimes those who say things without really contemplating what it truly means...That dogma runs a thin line.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

Every director has a complete different set of dogmas, if you may, or things that have to be a certain way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

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

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

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

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

Dogma makes dogmas or dogmata; exanthema, exanthemas or exanthemata; miasm or miasma, miasms or miasmata; stigma, stigmas or stigmata.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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

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




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