heresy

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

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

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

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

It draws its comedy from the fact that what, to Flanders and Swann’s twentieth- century Western audience, is a commonplace, is heresy to the cannibals of the song.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith