original sin

Example Sentences

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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

“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

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

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

Looking back on the long arc of Pitchfork’s maturation, it’s hard not to see Santarpia’s comment as the original sin of this corporate takeover.

From Slate • Jan. 19, 2024

I knew, as everyone knows, the true but incomplete statement of the problem—that an original sin of the fathers was being visited on the children of succeeding generations.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck