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doctrinaire

[dok-truh-nair] / ˈdɒk trəˈnɛər /


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A fun game to play is to ask your most politically doctrinaire friends if there’s a policy they secretly support that cuts against their usual views.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

"The modernism that was around before the 1980s was very grey, restrictive, utilitarian and quite doctrinaire really," Farrell said.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

Hwang is too agile a playwright to be doctrinaire.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024

An interesting viewpoint, and one we have also heard from officials of a more recent administration: Obeying the law is doctrinaire?

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2023

How do we know that these difficulties are doctrinaire ones?

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman




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