idolatry
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You can't play idolatry, you have to play her.
From Salon • May 9, 2025
Muslims consider images of the prophet to be sacrilegious and encouraging of idolatry.
From Washington Times • Dec. 8, 2023
Rand isn’t a character but the object of undue idolatry for Anna, a 39-year-old writer whose own “satire of the opioid epidemic” has just been called “classist” by the New York Times.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
The Israeli government expressed alarm over the defacement, which officials also attributed to Jewish iconoclasm in obedience to early prohibitions against idolatry.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023
She must have looked into our eyes and seen the shining idolatry there and understood that she was trapped.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing idolatry
The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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Novel Study: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1
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Warm-up, List 6
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