orthodoxy
Example Sentences
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There are no political, religious or secularist orthodoxies or litmus tests.
Analytically minded front offices, full of Ivy League data wonks with little or no playing experience, have far less reverence for baseball orthodoxy and have begun looking for talent in unusual places.
It’s also shaped by its programmers’ tastes and orthodoxies, including ideas about what constitutes a festival movie, which, much as at Cannes and elsewhere, tends to mean gravely serious, non-genre work.
From New York Times
In spaces where provocation is essential — opinion columns, universities and law schools in particular — it discourages the challenging of orthodoxy in favor of the comfortable cosseting of preexisting views.
From Washington Post
The message was sent via the State Department’s “dissent channel,” which is supposed to allow any employee a direct line to the secretary to challenge department orthodoxy.
From Washington Times
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