original sin

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The projects never were built, but many Latinos considered the destruction of the neighborhoods and removal of the residents as something of the Dodgers’ original sin and vowed never to set foot inside Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

You may recognize its reference to what's been called the nation's original sin and its primacy in 1932 Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the story takes place.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

“The approach was really the original sin of Gascón and the beginning and the end of this administration,” Ehrlich said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

So then—can an inanimate tool such as this typewriter be penitent, reformed, and redeemed from the original sin of its creation?

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

For medieval Christians, the existence of such a chain of humans provided a most powerful and original understanding of original sin.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee