heretical
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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
Evolutionary theory is no longer heretical, Galileo has been issued a hall pass to heaven, and quite a few sincere if entirely inadequate apologies have been issued, mostly to people long dead.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 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
Arnauld’s preoccupation with the fact developed out of the great dispute over whether Jansenism, of which Arnauld was the leading light, was heretical.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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