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

To the public, it will promise it can’t possibly be as powerful as its apostate researchers say it is.

From The Verge • Sep. 23, 2021

Mr. Xi “bears a great deal of culpability,” Ms. Cai said during the long, sometimes tearful interview on Tuesday about her evolution from party insider to apostate.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2020

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