sin

I wrote a piece for the Atlantic in which I said, “The original sin of AI is granting chatbots the use of the first person.”

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Some believe turning up with an iced matcha latte in hand is a cardinal sin.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Before we started calling one another “performative,” Tucker, Brownstein and Phair came from a time when “poser” was the worst insult and sin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

In White’s eyes, however, allowing financial bubbles to form and then pop is central banking’s original sin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

My own mother had said that losing your innocence and becoming a man was learning to sin.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Thomas has spoken publicly about his new-found faith: "I have repented my sins and, under Jesus Christ, I am a new man."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

But while your brother’s lack of money management appears to have led your mother to make this gesture, it’s also important not to punish his children for the sins of their father.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

For white people who felt no enmity toward their fellow man, but who believed they were paying for the sins of their fathers, he was hope.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Hindus believe completing the circuit carries great spiritual significance and helps cleanse sins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Eve then offers the fruit to Adam, and, having both sinned, they realize their nakedness, are ashamed and make clothing.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

After listing all those for whom she writes — “for the sinned against and the sanctifying” — Perry called for unity in difficult times:

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

Miss Manners also wonders who has been sinned against in this case, if your mother is, as she appears to be, the hostess and perhaps also the owner of the establishment.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022

“I have sinned, I’ve broken the law and I have no excuses,” Kreuper said via teleconference.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2022

In spite of the saints, his mother and his father, the warnings he had heard from his earliest beginnings, he had sinned with his hands a sin that was hard to forgive.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

His Adam is aptly named; he’s a biblical kind of hero, sinning and suffering.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2023

Crusaders came to expect standard privileges like the indulgence, a means to reduce the penance owed for sinning by giving money directly to the church or paying for masses or other clerical services.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Even if your daughters are, in some sense, more sinned against than sinning, you could reasonably worry that putting resources in their hands will allow them to support destructive causes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

He insists he is a man more sinned against than sinning and is working with lawyers to clear his name.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2021

I never sinning I always winning Now I got Jesus.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole