dogma
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Pentagon dogma for decades centered on surgical strikes using a limited number of expensive and ultraprecise munitions packed with computer chips and digital sensors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
It’s not enough to come barrelling into a conversation with a long-winded explanation of your personal dogma; you must also confidently push the value of those ideas, too.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
And suddenly, after all this time, I truly understand what the word dogma means.
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
And speaking at the FDA was not just a matter, for these figures, of challenging conventional dogmas, but of boosting their own reputations, sometimes to the benefit of their own finances and audiences.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025
In “Succession,” “Ozark” and to lesser extent, “Better Call Saul,” the prisons are a bit more DIY, a combination of unfortunate circumstances twisted into something worse by certain dogmas of family, power, identity and legacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
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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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
As the senses naturally belong to the body, and the desires and affections to the soul, so do the dogmata to the understanding.
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
What fear is there that thy dogmata, or philosophical resolutions III.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
It is a dogmatic system, in which the individual dogmata are controlled by a principle or dominant idea.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
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