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

This soul-gnawing anxiety is not original sin in the Christian sense, even if it functions in much the same way.

From Salon • May 25, 2025

Logically, one has to think so … if one believes that an inanimate object can be imbued with original sin to begin with.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

Stop's Mr Cahn says that "original sin" of predictive policing is "biased historical data".

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

He felt in some way that it was a kind of original sin, a terrible thing he’d done that spoke to a dark thing inside of him.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel