heresy

Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

Eventually, science slipped the shackles of heresy and astronomers revolutionized our understanding of Earth’s place in the cosmos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

His brother confirmed in an interview with the city’s local station WGN-TV that he is a White Sox fan, refuting early heresy claiming he roots for the Cubs, aka Satan’s Stickballers.

From Salon ● May 10, 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

According to one tradition, when the philosopher Protagoras was convicted on charges of heresy, his books were dumped in the city marketplace and burned.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

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

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018

To the committed Puritans who still reigned in Massachusetts, Quakerism recalled the chaotic heresies of Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomians, who had also disrupted public order by claiming to hear God’s voice directly.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

And, on the same model, heresies were named after their originators: Donatism and Arianism, for example.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton