blasphemy
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We’ve got two big threads this week: creeps in the House of Representatives and blasphemy.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
She also represented those accused of blasphemy -- an incendiary charge -- as well as Afghans who face crackdowns by the authorities.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
There cannot be, since blasphemy depends on the acknowledgment of the sacred.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
Laws against blasphemy were first codified by India's British rulers and expanded in the 1980s under the military government.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024
Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Saban had asked in 2012, complaining about the hurry-up revolution even before he’d beheld the extent of Malzahn’s blasphemies.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2021
He spoke blasphemies other chefs recognized as hard-won truths.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
As vividly portrayed by the veteran mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer, the agonies and blasphemies of the prioress were painful and even shocking to witness.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2013
George Bernard Shaw saw the aphorism as the new home for political slogans: "All great truths begin as blasphemies."
From Time Magazine Archive
All human schemes, all hell's conspiracies, 1030 All chance, all accident, all agency, All loves, hates, hopes, despairs, and blasphemies, All rights, all wrongs, to one high purpose bend.
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney
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