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blasphemy

[blas-fuh-mee] / ˈblæs fə mi /


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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

Judge McGarva said he did not view the case as an attempt to expand blasphemy laws.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2025

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

Shaw said bluntly: "All great truths begin as blasphemies," while Wilde remarked, with his lips ever so lightly curled: "If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."

From Time Magazine Archive

But hideous blasphemies all around came forth from infant lips, and of that stinted, joyless, loveless, misused childhood, if left to itself, an impure, unholy manhood and womanhood can be the only end.

From Notes on Old Edinburgh by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)




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