heresy

For most of its 50-year history, this would have been heresy at Apple.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

"This is eminently reasonable but was treated for many years as heresy," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

I realize this is heresy, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the irreducible strangeness of the drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024

“That's a good point. I thought you were going to say medieval times or something because you like all those fantasy games, but you're right—they would've arrested you for heresy or something.”

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

In the wake of iconoclasm, the leaders of the Orthodox church, the patriarchs of Constantinople, would claim that innovations in theology or Christian practice were heresies.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

“The heresies of one period,” she said, always become “the orthodoxies of the next”.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018

The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Luther from the Catholic Church, for example, accused him of promoting 41 heresies and “pestiferous errors.”

From National Geographic ● Oct. 27, 2017

All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.

From "1984" by George Orwell