dogma
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That line of thinking quickly became dogma across the industry, leaving the humble bunt for dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
"Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity," sniffed Lyell.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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
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
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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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
So much for the dogmata of my friend Lismahago, whom I describe the more circumstantially, as I firmly believe he will set up his rest in Monmouthshire.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
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
All these dogmata were mingled in an equal contempt for existing institutions in one same aspiration for the renewal of the mind and things.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
The foregoing considerations may be summed up in the form of three dogmata, all of which orthodox Christianity teaches.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
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