apostate

Example Sentences

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“When you detransition, you’re seen as an apostate, and it’s not fair and it’s not right. I don’t hate anyone. I really don’t.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Sheffield is an apostate now, alienated for good it seems.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2021

Diane Ravitch, the education historian and school reform apostate, declared the movement dead in her book “Slaying Goliath,” published just months before the first Covid cases were reported in America.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

John McCain would sit in the back of his bus — the “Straight Talk Express” — and tell you anything you wanted to know about life as a war hero and party apostate.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2021

My father never went along, having become an apostate at the age of eight over the exorbitant price of votive candles.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides