heresy
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And some voices inside Iran were engaging in a bit of heresy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 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
That, of course, was heresy, since Namath played for the AFL’s New York Jets and the big boys from the NFL champion Baltimore Colts, led by Johnny Unitas, were 19-point favorites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
Darwin knew that he was now gliding along the dangerous edge of the known world, tacking south of heresy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
You’ll need more heresies than that to oust an incumbent in a primary.
From Slate ● May 24, 2022
He was equally interested in imposing Christian uniformity through the elimination of Christian heresies like Arianism.
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
He had refused to recant his heresies, including his belief in other inhabited worlds.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Fahrenheit 451
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