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heresy

[her-uh-see] / ˈhɛr ə si /


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In a statement to AFP earlier this month, Orelien called the allegations "slander and heresy."

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

And some voices inside Iran were engaging in a bit of heresy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

His brother confirmed in an interview with the city’s local station WGN-TV that he is a White Sox fan, refuting early heresy claiming he roots for the Cubs, aka Satan’s Stickballers.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

It was received everywhere, but particularly in the paleontological community, as an outrageous heresy.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

In the state’s lone House district, Republican Dusty Johnson is facing a primary for the usual heresies.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2022

In the wake of iconoclasm, the leaders of the Orthodox church, the patriarchs of Constantinople, would claim that innovations in theology or Christian practice were heresies.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

“The heresies of one period,” she said, always become “the orthodoxies of the next”.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018

He had refused to recant his heresies, including his belief in other inhabited worlds.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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