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heterodox

[het-er-uh-doks] / ˈhɛt ər əˌdɒks /
ADJECTIVE
heretical
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So have heterodox types like James Talarico, the Bible-quoting left-wing populist who won the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Even some heterodox economists themselves have not wanted to be associated with it, and I don't actually love the term.

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

Theological writers described heterodox tenets from their inferences of what they must be—never inquiring what they actually stood for in the minds of those who held them—whereas he had written with unimputative knowledge.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob




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