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heterodox

[het-er-uh-doks] / ˈhɛt ər əˌdɒks /
ADJECTIVE
heretical
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Maybe there is hope after all for the rising generation of boys and men if even a heterodox public intellectual like Scott Galloway is willing to offer such traditional medicine for our contemporary male maladies.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 9, 2025

Their diversity of approaches, under the umbrella term of "heterodox economics," has been seen as a weakness, because their work can't come together into a coherent whole to challenge orthodox economics.

From Salon Feb. 1, 2025

A play like Harrower’s “Blackbird,” too morally disquieting to be produced by the city’s risk-averse big-budget theaters, appealed to Flynn’s heterodox side.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 27, 2024

As Catholic Herald’s Ed Condon explains, the Church opposes Freemasonry because of its secular focus and its role as a sanctuary for “those with heterodox ideas and agendas.”

From National Geographic Sep. 19, 2023

He is slightly heterodox; what Germans call Kathedersozialist, and what even Maine would call downright Socialist.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton




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