dogma
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Friedman was, as usual, channeling mainstream foreign policy dogma, which briefly held that constructive change might emerge from the chaotic aftermath of the Oct.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
"This challenges the dogma that calorie reduction is necessary to lose weight, but it also tells us that we need to have clear understanding of the mechanisms," he said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
This is a refreshing change from the dogma of the past several years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Her break with what she called "anti-clim' dogma" is significant because until now the Green movement in France has regarded air-conditioning as the worst of solutions to climate change.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
“Equality’s good. But equality and sameness are two different things. Sometimes those who say things without really contemplating what it truly means...That dogma runs a thin line.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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In the Middle East, the dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"It is up to all of us to preserve confidence in our democratic coexistence," he said, adding: "In democracy, one's own ideas can never be dogmas; nor can those of others be threats."
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
It probes how the act of co-opting idealisms and converting them to dogmas has occurred many times over.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
CrossFit might, per the founder, have a bit of a religion-slash-biker-gang aura around it—but what it transmitted to me about food and body fat wasn’t all that different from the standard cultural dogmas.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023
At parties they start to ask leading questions that have the ring of inquisition; they are interested in my positions, my dogmas.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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What fear is there that thy dogmata, or philosophical resolutions III.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
The one had deeply investigated the religious dogmata, the other the political institutions; and the president Dupaty had long after awakened there enthusiasm for the new system of philosophy.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
Let us, then, without farther notice of the dogmata of the schools of art, follow forth those conclusions to which we are led by observance of the laws of nature.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
And without a change of dogmata, what is there but the slavery of men groaning and pretending to obey?
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
The theosophists in their turn produced the symbols of supernatural perfection, and enrolled all susceptible minds and ardent imaginations around dogmata full of love and infinity.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
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Steve Jobs's Commencement Address (2005)
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