dogma

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But just as pizzaiolos have riffed on the Neapolitan pie, some artisanal bakers have found that the key to success lies in strategically breaking from dogma.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

For more than a century, the phrase “sell in May and go away, and come back on St. Leger’s Day,” has been treated as dogma by many financial pundits.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

It’s not enough to come barrelling into a conversation with a long-winded explanation of your personal dogma; you must also confidently push the value of those ideas, too.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

But Bill Sutherland, a biologist at the University of Cambridge, has found that some dogma in conservation is flat-out wrong when put to the test.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

His system, as expounded in his thirteen-volume opus The Almagest, had much influence both in Europe and in the Islamic world, and was later adopted as dogma by the Catholic Church.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro