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

In this regard, she and Helaena hew closer to traditional medieval mysticism, which did not typically use sex for religious emancipation, rather than the practices ascribed to some of the more esoteric heretical sects.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 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

For many Californians, especially the state’s political leaders, this is a heretical idea—like saying nobody in California’s going to surf anymore.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2023

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