original sin
Example Sentences
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Nothing will ever undo the original sin, and devoting your life to ruining someone else’s is a loss for both of you.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
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
Stop's Mr Cahn says that "original sin" of predictive policing is "biased historical data".
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024
When she’s cleaned it up enough, she attempts a bite as if it’s the original sin.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
