heretical
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That view isn’t especially heretical among some Fed watchers, given disagreements about the role the Fed’s balance sheet plays in the markets.
From Barron's • Oct. 8, 2025
It was branded as heretical by Puritan authorities.
From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025
Of course, what the former president does not understand is that the protection of free expression is most needed when speech is unpopular, offensive, or heretical.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024
For the past year, two philosophy professors have been calling around to prominent authors and public intellectuals with an unusual, perhaps heretical, proposal.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2024
After 1653 this dispute turned on the question of whether the five Jansenist propositions condemned by the pope as heretical were or were not to be found in Jansen’s Augustinus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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