heresy
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Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Team USA’s second World Cup match was already his fourth game of the tournament and, by then, he was the rare fan who had fallen in love with these moments of soccer heresy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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
The heresy of yesterday is now – thanks to science and economic crisis – the opportunity of today.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Cudn Hope laughed, but Papa looked like he’d just heard heresy incarnate.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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
As for Cornyn, perhaps Trump still harbors grudges for various heresies over the years.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 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
There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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