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

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

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

But his suggestion that animals think and feel was seen as scientific heresy among many, if not most animal behaviour experts.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2024

It was received everywhere, but particularly in the paleontological community, as an outrageous heresy.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson