heresy
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Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
For most of its 50-year history, this would have been heresy at Apple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
"This is eminently reasonable but was treated for many years as heresy," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
This, in Greenblatt’s world of value investors, counted as heresy.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
In the past, while the Church did its best to crack down on heresies, it was not necessary to impose any kind of formal censorship.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
“The heresies of one period,” she said, always become “the orthodoxies of the next”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018
The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Luther from the Catholic Church, for example, accused him of promoting 41 heresies and “pestiferous errors.”
From National Geographic ● Oct. 27, 2017
But these heresies died when he read her last letter.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing heresy
Fahrenheit 451
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