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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 in Pakistan -- as well as Afghans who face crackdowns by the authorities.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 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 Pakistan's military government.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 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

Unlike Luis Bunuel, who also deals in curiously reverential blasphemies, Downey lacks the ruthless, rigorous intellect that gives depth to such flights of fantasy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now those "blasphemies" are set forth in the accusation of an informer, one Richard Bame, who was hanged at Tyburn the next year for some mortal offence.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote


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