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
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
Stop's Mr Cahn says that "original sin" of predictive policing is "biased historical data".
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024
“The original sin here was not factoring in what Loberg’s workload was,” said Gerstein of Gotham Ghostwriters.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023
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
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