dogma

Example Sentences

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But the head coach's absolute belief in his methods occasionally strayed into dogma, and his apparent refusal to adapt - or incorporate just a little more pragmatism - proved costly.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Additionally, scaling laws, once considered the industry’s central dogma, have come under increasing scrutiny as returns diminish.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 24, 2026

But good intentions can harden into dogma, and instead of helping people work through conflicted feelings, practitioners doubled down on the proposition that any desire for change was evidence of internalized harm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Sundance was and is his version of the American dream, built to fit his inclusive, thoughtful dogma.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2025

Farmer had never cared much about the religious dogma he’d been taught as a child, and he still didn’t believe in most of it now.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French