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

It did strike me as odd, however, that “Tony” is forged on a factual alteration that diverts Tony from the kitchen far too often — the movie’s cardinal sin.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

When the penance had reached the appropriate level for a particular sin, the penitent was granted absolution in advance, though he might never be called on to commit the sin.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

So Japan is acting the most responsibly at the moment, whatever its past sins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

In a novel full of insufferable characters interfering with romantic soulmates, Mary commits the sins of both pedantry and priggishness.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

Whitewashing or altering them because of the sins of their subjects is out of the playbook of despots who erase history or twist it to suit modern-day needs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

I am seized again and again with pains that mount like sins and pierce like swords.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

His lawyers argued that while he had engaged in bad behavior and sinned against his wife, he had not broken the law.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2023

He left the church shortly thereafter, after confessing to the congregation as a whole that he had sinned in such a way that it would necessitate him stepping down from ministry.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2022

“I have sinned, I have broken the law, and I have no excuses,” Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, the former principal of St. James Catholic School, told the judge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2022

She had defeated him—she had sinned against his empire and now would emerge victorious.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

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

In both lore and real life, physical differences have been read as warnings of danger, symbols of evil, or evidence of sinning or witchcraft.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2020

I never sinning I always winning Now I got Jesus.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole