anathema
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As somebody who was at the DOJ for 21 years, I find that to be anathema to how I thought about public service.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
Commercials were anathema to Hastings, but Netflix has now built an ad business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
District Judge William G. Young, a Ronald Reagan appointee, recently pointed out that use of masked law enforcement officers had long been considered anathema to American ideals.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
A cap is anathema to the players’ union.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
But I found that such a meeting was anathema to ANC leaders in Natal.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011
She utters her prophecies and anathemas as if the blood of Cassandra were coursing through her veins.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next year the spiritual leaders of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy withdrew the mutual anathemas that their predecessors had hurled at each other a full millennium before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Theologians from both traditions eventually concluded that the 16th century anathemas were more a function of crossed wires than a denial that salvation is a no-strings-attached gift from God.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is noteworthy that all these anathemas are simply for ecclesiastical offences, not for any immorality, however gross.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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