cardinal
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Her crime, she believes, is “the cardinal scientific sin of anthropomorphizing trees by using the metaphor of the mother tree.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Jean-Paul Vesco, the Franco-Algerian cardinal of the Catholic Church who serves as the Archbishop of Algiers, wrote in a statement.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
The cardinal sin of “The Last Days” is that it doesn’t choose a storyline.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
Before Robby and Al-Hashimi engage in any real ideological tussles, though, she commits the cardinal sin of suggesting they change the trauma center’s nickname to something else.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026
The cardinal wasn’t doing anything at all—just sitting on a twig, all fluffed up to keep himself warm.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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