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heretical

[huh-ret-i-kuhl] / həˈrɛt ɪ kəl /


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She also realized something heretical: She was painfully bored playing with her kids on the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

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

Call me heretical, but sometimes I feel that way about L.A.’s palm trees.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

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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