orthodoxy
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“The modern view,” Mr. Sidebottom writes, “is to doubt its historical accuracy. It is a scholarly orthodoxy that the salute was no more than a one-off impromptu acclamation that went very wrong.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
“But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
How has something temporary and so radical become, almost overnight and with minimal democratic debate, the orthodoxy?
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
If appointed cabinet secretary, Dame Antonia is not a civil servant who would hide in the shadows and her supporters say she is a "disrupter" who can challenge Whitehall orthodoxy.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
None of this, of course, was supported by so much as a grain of actual evidence–nothing so wrong could be–yet it was geological orthodoxy for the next half century.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing orthodoxy
"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay
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"American Flag Stands for Tolerance" by Ronald J. Allen
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