apostate

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Through "Clone Wars" and "Rebels" TV viewers were privy to the evolution of Ahsoka Tano from a young Togruta Jedi apprentice to an apostate who retains her connection with the Force and her training.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2023

“When you detransition, you’re seen as an apostate, and it’s not fair and it’s not right. I don’t hate anyone. I really don’t.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2023

The Met in return has promised to have a dozen works by Guston — Abstract Expressionism’s greatest apostate — on view at all times for the next 50 years.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2023

To the public, it will promise it can’t possibly be as powerful as its apostate researchers say it is.

From The Verge • Sep. 23, 2021

My father never went along, having become an apostate at the age of eight over the exorbitant price of votive candles.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides