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
But just as pizzaiolos have riffed on the Neapolitan pie, some artisanal bakers have found that the key to success lies in strategically breaking from dogma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
“I don’t know what the dogma is, but I know it nearly turned my brother’s hair grey.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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
Students are taught—what I never had to be taught—that religion is not simply a matter of dogmas or theological truths; that religion involves a person’s whole way of life.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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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
Dogma makes dogmas or dogmata; exanthema, exanthemas or exanthemata; miasm or miasma, miasms or miasmata; stigma, stigmas or stigmata.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
What fear is there that thy dogmata, or philosophical resolutions III.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Early writers of the modern period, Protestant or Roman Catholic, use it frequently of heretics; thus the Augsburg Confession protests Dogmata in revived use. that the Protestants have carefully avoided nova dogmata.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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
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