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heterodox

[het-er-uh-doks] / ˈhɛt ər əˌdɒks /
ADJECTIVE
heretical
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The ex-television host said that former Fox News stars like Carlson and Kelly were run out of their positions not because of their heterodox views, but because they couldn’t hack it in the entertainment business.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026

At the dawn of research into what is now known as HIV/AIDS, Duesberg took the heterodox view that HIV was a harmless virus that had nothing to do with AIDS.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

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

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

One of the funniest was the signing one of his heterodox publications as the Archbishop of Canterbury, a lie which may remind us of the drunken Sheridan announcing himself as William Wilberforce.

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)




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